Neil Diamond: 12 Songs
CASE MEMORIAL LIBRARY CALL NUMBER: CD/POPULAR/Diamond
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/NeilDiamond/
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote: "Diamond's new album, '12 Songs,' which was produced by Rick Rubin, exhibits both his chivalrous approach to romance and his awkwardly phrased enthusiasms, qualities that have been evident since the start of his forty-five-year career. Happily, Rubin reins in Diamond's floridity more than any other producer he has worked with since the sixties, highlighting the weird mixture of guilelessness and gravitas at the center of his work. . . . The album is revealing in its spareness. What few instruments Rubin uses are acoustic, and there is drumming on only one track. At Rubin's insistence, Diamond played the guitar himself, something he hadn't done on a recording in nearly forty years. Rubin understood that Diamond, by being forced to play and sing at the same time, would be less likely to ham it up: '12 Songs' shows what Diamond can do when he is relieved of his crowd-pleasing duties and spangly uniform. . . ." ("Hello, Again," The New Yorker, 1/16/06, pp. 84-85).
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/NeilDiamond/
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote: "Diamond's new album, '12 Songs,' which was produced by Rick Rubin, exhibits both his chivalrous approach to romance and his awkwardly phrased enthusiasms, qualities that have been evident since the start of his forty-five-year career. Happily, Rubin reins in Diamond's floridity more than any other producer he has worked with since the sixties, highlighting the weird mixture of guilelessness and gravitas at the center of his work. . . . The album is revealing in its spareness. What few instruments Rubin uses are acoustic, and there is drumming on only one track. At Rubin's insistence, Diamond played the guitar himself, something he hadn't done on a recording in nearly forty years. Rubin understood that Diamond, by being forced to play and sing at the same time, would be less likely to ham it up: '12 Songs' shows what Diamond can do when he is relieved of his crowd-pleasing duties and spangly uniform. . . ." ("Hello, Again," The New Yorker, 1/16/06, pp. 84-85).
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