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UK's Q Magazine: Life Death Love And Freedom LP Review
10.06.2008 - John Mellencamp
Life Death Love And Freedom
3 stars
By Paul Ree’s
Among a crop of like minded American singer-songwriters to have emerged in the
‘70’s (Springsteen, Tom Petty, Warren Zevon), John Mellencamp is the forgotten
man over here, and unfairly so. Life Death Love And Freedom (punctuation is for
wimps, apparently) won’t return him to the US chart-topping status he once
enjoyed, but it’s his best work since 1993’s Human Wheels. Like that album it’s
a folksy, melancholy affair, producer T-Bone Burnett bringing the same intimate
feel he gave to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Raising Sand. AS the title
implies, it talks the big issues, sometimes at the expense of melody, but
there’s a handful of very fine songs here.
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