Brushfire Fairytales |
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Artist:
Jack Johnson
List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £7.68
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Disc 1:
| 1. Inaudible Melodies | | 2. Middle Man | | 3. Posters | | 4. Sexy Plexi | | 5. Flake | | 6. Bubble Toes | | 7. Fortunate Fool | | 8. The News | | 9. Drink The Water | | 10. Mudfootball (For Moe Lerner) | | 11. F-Stop Blues | | 12. Losing Hope | | 13. It's All Understood | | 14. Flake (Live) | | 15. Inaudible Melodies (Live) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Fans of Willy Porter, Ben Harper and G Love will all want to check out the engaging folk and blues-inflected pop of Jack Johnson's Brushfire Fairytales. Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Johnson--a former surfer and film-school graduate--has a knack for acoustic ballads whose calm surfaces hide a subtle but strong lyrical undertow. "It seems to me that 'maybe' pretty much always means 'no'," sings Johnson on "Flake", which features crony Harper on slide guitar. Production by JP Plunier (who also handles Harper's recordings) is simple and uncluttered: acoustic guitar and drum tracks share the foreground with Johnson's easygoing vocals, which evoke everyone from G Love (who recorded Johnson's "Rodeo Clowns" on his Philadelphonic) to Nick Drake to Willy Porter. And while Johnson may not have Porter's guitar chops, these songs have a relaxed beauty and understated depth that reward repeated listening. --Bill Forman
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0044006495620
Label: Universal / Island
Manufacturer: Universal / Island
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release Date: 2002-10-14
Running Time: 54
Studio: Universal / Island |
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