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He did it again!!!
Although i'm such a big fun of Steve i didn't expect such a brilliant album.Alternative rock at its best.You can find all Steve's heroes here from Bob Dylan to Neil Young influences from the psychedelic sixties era and a bit of nostalgia for the Dream Syndicate days(The Days Of Wine And Roses).Steve has a perfect way of bringing out the best from his fellow musicians and you have the impression that what you hear is a result from a group of people who absolutely enjoy thereselves and in rock n' roll that's the issue!Beautiful lyrics and some dreamy melodies show that Mr.Wynn is one of the best songwriters of his time.So i still can't understand why some so called important music magazines don't pay much attention to him and istead they are trying to persuade us that such groups as Oasis Radiohead or System Of A Down are the future of rock n'roll..please!!!However Steve doesn't care much about all this publicity all he cares about is his music and the result is great albums as HERE COME THE MIRACLES

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Guitar Noir Classic is Best of Artist!
Steve Wynn has always been the Raymond Chandler or James Ellroy of rock and with HERE COME THE MIRACLES, Wynn ascends to a level equal to his literary aspirations. In fact, there is even an actual real-life mutual admiration pact between modern noir writer George R. Pelicanos and Wynn with the paperback writer often having his fictional characters listening to music by Wynn or his band Dream Syndicate. This association between the rocker and the writer was further advanced when Pelicanos wrote Wynn's press biography with the release of HERE COME THE MIRACLES and the two men interviewed each other over drinks for MAGNET Magazine. HERE COMES THE MIRACLES is Steve Wynn's Guitar Noir tour-de-force. Two CDs of brilliant songwriting bashed out with reckless abandon by Wynn and his ace combo. At times it's a bit sprawling, like the city of Los Angeles that inspired it, at times infused with pathos, but ultimately redemption is sought and found in the closing song "There Will Come A Day." If you have yet to hear this epic masterwork from one of rock's latter day masters, you owe it to yourself to check it out!

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A Bone for Us Old Dogs
Just under 20 years ago, a group of us (you know who we are) were crossing the threshold into adulthood listening to the likes of the Replacements, Husker Du, REM, Camper Van Beethoven, Meat Puppets, Let's Active, Feelies, Robyn Hitchcock, Green on Red, Rain Parade, and Game Theory (etc. etc. etc.). The sound we all loved passed away in the late '80's as REM became average (at best) and some of us got wives, jobs, car payments. I haven't spent too much time lamenting the passing of this era or getting nostalgic over a "sound" that could never return. But then I purchased this new Steve Wynn album a couple weeks ago, and have found myself simultaneously rejoicing over sounds I haven't heard in over 15 years, and feeling sad that such graceful grime is the exception rather than the rule here in the 21st century.

I am not suggesting that this album is an insipid retread by any means. In fact, Steve Wynn has clearly assimilated sounds that have been created in the intervening years (such as Pavement, the Dead C), but the spirit surely harkens back to a period before the age of "made bands" (you know what I'm talkin' here). I have always felt that the music of my glory days was an artistic (and decidedly liberal) response to the conservativism of the Reagan era. Perhaps Steve Wynn's passionate new recording is an indication that with another conservative administration in office the underground is once again percolating with tention, regret, and a yearning for mystery.

I am not going to indulge in any song-by-song "faux music critic" analysis of the disc. However, the disc has a delicious and decidedly un-state-of-the-art sound, one dominated by guitar. The musicianship is of the highest order, but is not dominated by solos or boring "vituosity". Overall, the music is about the songs and the passions behind them.

This thang is a thrill and has given me a scratch I will be itching for some time.