DRIVE 2003
Carl Carlton, who has asked Robert to contribute to a Robert Johnson tribute album two years earlier, plays guitar on this blues record. Palmer's self produced first attempt at the genre proves to be a major artistic success with critics hailing the record as Palmers gritiest and most heartfelt record since the early 70's. Palmer starts by choosing 50 songs at the outset and edits these down to 12-16 tracks on the basis of lyrical content. the album is released in May by Universal outside of the USA and Compendia within the 52 states.
Reviews:
Rhythm & Blues Music Primer
"This is the blues and R&B filtered through a sophisticated sensibility that Palmer has exhibited throughout his career, occasionally to the detriment of the music. But on this occasion, it works superbly and he's put together what might well be his best album since the albums of the late 70s.
It should surprise a lot of people and it deserves to be a success - full of soul and real emotion, great playing and a vocalist at the top of his form "
The Guardian
"I daresay that some of you may have forgotten that Robert Palmer ever existed. Having knocked about with the Power Station and been all over MTV in the 1980s with Addicted to Love, he gradually subsided under a syrupy tide of big-band orchestrations.
However, he started off singing R&B, and Drive finds Palmer sounding grittier and gutsier than you might have imagined possible.
There's one Palmer original, Lucky, among a batch of blues and R&B standards, but he's had the good sense to hire a small squad of no-bullshit musicians and keep the playing rough and loose.
His Caribbean vocal in Stella is frankly ridiculous, but he does much better on the raucous knees-up of Mama Talk To Your Daughter and a gutbucket reworking of Hound Dog, and sounds positively Mississippian in the slithery acoustic blues of Am I Wrong?"
Tracklisting
1. Mama Talk To Your Daughter
2. Why Get Up?
3. Who's Foolin' Who?
4. Am I Wrong
5. TV Dinners
6. Lucky
7. Stella
8. Dr. Zhivago's Train
9. Ain't That Just Like A Woman
10. Hound Dog
11. Crazy Cajun Cake walk Band
12. I Need Your Love So Bad
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Extra Tracks available on Universal Release only
13. 29 Ways
14. It Hurts Me Too
15. Stupid Cupid
16. Milkcow's Calf Blues
Carl Carlton, who has asked Robert to contribute to a Robert Johnson tribute album two years earlier, plays guitar on this blues record. Palmer's self produced first attempt at the genre proves to be a major artistic success with critics hailing the record as Palmers gritiest and most heartfelt record since the early 70's. Palmer starts by choosing 50 songs at the outset and edits these down to 12-16 tracks on the basis of lyrical content. the album is released in May by Universal outside of the USA and Compendia within the 52 states.
Reviews:
Rhythm & Blues Music Primer
"This is the blues and R&B filtered through a sophisticated sensibility that Palmer has exhibited throughout his career, occasionally to the detriment of the music. But on this occasion, it works superbly and he's put together what might well be his best album since the albums of the late 70s.
It should surprise a lot of people and it deserves to be a success - full of soul and real emotion, great playing and a vocalist at the top of his form "
The Guardian
"I daresay that some of you may have forgotten that Robert Palmer ever existed. Having knocked about with the Power Station and been all over MTV in the 1980s with Addicted to Love, he gradually subsided under a syrupy tide of big-band orchestrations.
However, he started off singing R&B, and Drive finds Palmer sounding grittier and gutsier than you might have imagined possible.
There's one Palmer original, Lucky, among a batch of blues and R&B standards, but he's had the good sense to hire a small squad of no-bullshit musicians and keep the playing rough and loose.
His Caribbean vocal in Stella is frankly ridiculous, but he does much better on the raucous knees-up of Mama Talk To Your Daughter and a gutbucket reworking of Hound Dog, and sounds positively Mississippian in the slithery acoustic blues of Am I Wrong?"
Tracklisting
1. Mama Talk To Your Daughter
2. Why Get Up?
3. Who's Foolin' Who?
4. Am I Wrong
5. TV Dinners
6. Lucky
7. Stella
8. Dr. Zhivago's Train
9. Ain't That Just Like A Woman
10. Hound Dog
11. Crazy Cajun Cake walk Band
12. I Need Your Love So Bad
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Extra Tracks available on Universal Release only
13. 29 Ways
14. It Hurts Me Too
15. Stupid Cupid
16. Milkcow's Calf Blues
