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Track List
01) Fight Outta You
02) In the Colors
03) Fool for a Lonesome Train
04) Needed You Tonight
05) Having Wings
06) Say You Will
07) Younger Than Today
08) Put It on Me
09) Heart of Matters
10) Paris Sunrise #7
11) Lifeline
Cd 2
01) Fight Outta You
02) Say You Will
03) In the Colors
04) Needed You Tonight
05) Whipping Boy
06) Younger Than Today
07) Fool for a Lonesome Train
08) Heart of Matters
09) Welcome To The Cruel World
10) Put It on Me
01) Fight Outta You
02) In the Colors
03) Fool for a Lonesome Train
04) Needed You Tonight
05) Having Wings
06) Say You Will
07) Younger Than Today
08) Put It on Me
09) Heart of Matters
10) Paris Sunrise #7
11) Lifeline
Cd 2
01) Fight Outta You
02) Say You Will
03) In the Colors
04) Needed You Tonight
05) Whipping Boy
06) Younger Than Today
07) Fool for a Lonesome Train
08) Heart of Matters
09) Welcome To The Cruel World
10) Put It on Me
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First Released
2007
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With Newton Faulkner currently tearing up the charts, treading in the well-worn footprints - or, rather sandalprints- of Jack Johnson and Donavon Frankenreiter, it looks like ‘Dude music’ is fully back in vogue. For Ben Harper, this is a good thing. He might be royalty in France, but the charms of his laid back muso-heavy offerings have so far proved elusive to all but a hardcore of UK fans. A bit like Counting Crows or Phish, we just don’t get Harper over here.
With Lifeline that could be about to change. The album was recorded and mixed over one week in a small Parisian studio after nine months on the road, and it sounds like it too. The music is organic, acoustic, effortless and almost telepathically soulful. Harper and his Innocent Criminals have an innate understanding in their playing that only comes when six grown men are holed up in a tour bus for three-quarters of the year.
The lyrics, however, have suffered. Actually, they’re pretty dreadful. Given the easiness on the ear of Harper’s voice, this is less of a problem – yet, with song after song reliant on a succession of rhyming clichés (and with Harper, where there’s an ‘eye’ you can bet your life a ‘pie’, ‘sky’ or ‘why’ will surely follow) an entire album built on everyman spiritualism loses its sense of identity. Lifeline is a road album. A great-sounding road album; but a road album none the less.
Still, Harper’s laid-back blend of country, rock and soul on tracks like “In The Colors” and “Having Wings” remains a winning formula. And when he stretches those lazy vocal chords on “Needed You Tonight”, the effect is stunning. Certainly, fans of Paul Weller and Van Morrison will find much to love here. Just don’t listen too closely to the words.
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Click yellow EDIT Button add one in English or another language
User Album Review
With Newton Faulkner currently tearing up the charts, treading in the well-worn footprints - or, rather sandalprints- of Jack Johnson and Donavon Frankenreiter, it looks like ‘Dude music’ is fully back in vogue. For Ben Harper, this is a good thing. He might be royalty in France, but the charms of his laid back muso-heavy offerings have so far proved elusive to all but a hardcore of UK fans. A bit like Counting Crows or Phish, we just don’t get Harper over here.
With Lifeline that could be about to change. The album was recorded and mixed over one week in a small Parisian studio after nine months on the road, and it sounds like it too. The music is organic, acoustic, effortless and almost telepathically soulful. Harper and his Innocent Criminals have an innate understanding in their playing that only comes when six grown men are holed up in a tour bus for three-quarters of the year.
The lyrics, however, have suffered. Actually, they’re pretty dreadful. Given the easiness on the ear of Harper’s voice, this is less of a problem – yet, with song after song reliant on a succession of rhyming clichés (and with Harper, where there’s an ‘eye’ you can bet your life a ‘pie’, ‘sky’ or ‘why’ will surely follow) an entire album built on everyman spiritualism loses its sense of identity. Lifeline is a road album. A great-sounding road album; but a road album none the less.
Still, Harper’s laid-back blend of country, rock and soul on tracks like “In The Colors” and “Having Wings” remains a winning formula. And when he stretches those lazy vocal chords on “Needed You Tonight”, the effect is stunning. Certainly, fans of Paul Weller and Van Morrison will find much to love here. Just don’t listen too closely to the words.
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