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| ARTIST: | Robert Palmer |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Compendia |
| TYPE: | Pop, Rock |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Mama Talk to Your Daughter, Why Get Up?, Who's Fooling Who?, Am I Wrong?, TV Dinners, Lucky, Stella, Dr. Zhivago's Train, Ain't That Just Like a Woman, Hound Dog, Crazy Cajun Cake Walk Band, I Need Your Love So Bad |
| UPC: | 015095488626 |
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Customer Reviews of Drive
Drive is Palmer's master work Drive, recorded for an indie label shortly before Palmer's untimely death, is clearly a work of passion by one of the great blues artists. Palmer is in a category with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Eric Burdon, and Stevie Ray Vaughn when it comes to reinventing the bluesÑand he may well be the finest white blues vocalist to record since Elvis' early days. Drive is essentially a sample of his favorites from every blues subgenre, Delta, Caribbean, juke joint, Chicago, R&B, rock, and alt-blues. Different songs will appeal to you at different times, depending on your mood, but each one will at some time thrill or charm you. Palmer also does blues aficionados the favor of turning us on to new materialÑthere is only one chestnut in the collection, and, amazingly, Palmer carries off the nearly impossible challenge of recording a "Hound Dog" as memorable as Big Mama Thornton's and, I'd argue, more nuanced than Koko Taylor's version. The first time I heard this album, I cried because I knew that Palmer wasn't able to devote the best years of his career to blues. But this album pretty much makes up for it. At the top of my top 10 for 2003.
Palmer's joyful parting statement
It's hard not to write with a bit of sentiment given Robert Palmer's recent death, but this album stands as a fine, if inadvertant, tribute to one of the great popular music artists of the past 40 years.
More than anything, Palmer was one of modern music's best arrangers, a talent that is little recognized in the restrictive world of rock music. He put his inimitable stamp on whatever he touched, and never more distinctly than on Drive. He does rock, but it isn't a rock album. He does blues, but it isnt a blues album. Drive is Palmer mining his seemingly bottomless reservoir of joyfully idiosyncratic musical ideas. From his vocal phrasing to the way he refreshes old rhythms, Palmer excites the senses. It is apt that his youthful influences were the likes of Basie and Ellington, because, like them, he didn't succumb to the idiotic predictability that quickly afflicts almost all "rock stars," and especially those who had huge hits. Palmer was still making exciting music in his fourth decade in the rock business! Who else can that be said about? Only Ry Cooder comes to mind. Of course, neither has allowed himself to be confined within the suffocating boundary of rock.
Drive very much deserves a listen, and I cannot do justice to what you will hear. I will say that anyone who can not only equal but best Big Mama Thornton's version of Hound Dog has accomplished something special.
The U.S. release of Drive is missing some songs that are on the U.K. CD. It is worth a few extra dollars to buy the U.K. disc from Amazon UK.
Drive is OUTSTANDING !!!
This CD is pure, undistilled Robert Palmer - true to himself and obviously loving what he does.
As a long time fan I have happily travelled down the RP musical road, looking forward to what was around the next bend. I have to say that he really hit his stride with this one. It is a real joy - how I wish he was here to tell him so.