Burton Cummings launches Above the Ground
p2pnet news view | Music:- Burton Cummings has just released his first “entirely Burton Cummings” album in a 40-year career.
You could do a lot worse than the “amiable” Above the Ground, continues the Toronto Star.
“A marathon 19 tracks in length, the disc gives Cummings ample room to indulge a variety of songwriting whims within the gruff range he’s carved out for himself over the years,” says Ben Rayner.
” ‘Crazy If You Mess with the Gods’ and the slightly more calculated fist-pumper ‘We Just Came from the U.S.A.’ – which attempts to rekindle a little of that ‘American Woman’ spirit of anti-Americanism – are genial barroom rockers.”
However, “I hoped to heap on the praise for Cummings’ comeback recording,” says Heath McCoy in the Calgary Herald, “but I can’t because it just doesn’t live up to his best work as a solo artist, and it doesn’t come close to his finest moments in The Guess Who.”
Notwithstanding and nevertheless, it’s not all bad, he says, adding, “the boozy last call ballad Look Out Char-lie (There’s A New Bartender in Town) is one of the album’s most likable cuts.”
Right or wrong?
Check out We just Came from the USA (video and stream) on Cummings’ site.
Sounds like BTO on a bad day.
Toronto Star – , November 4, 2008
Calgary Herald – Burton Cummings hits the ground with a dull thud, November 4, 2008
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
