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T Bone Burnett: The Other Side review – a radiant meditation
Inspired by new guitars, and with guest spots from Roseanne Cash and more, the US producer-musician contemplates love and mortality
His vocals are husky and downbeat but they hold tension and drama, and come enlivened by the voices of folk duo Lucius and others, with sumptuous guitar playing from old compadres; there are fountains of picking and twanging. A ghostly lover awaits his partner on Waiting for You, while The Town That Time Forgot and Little Darling appear to look back on life together from, well, the other side of the album title. More conventional are breakup songs The Pain of Love and(I’m Gonna Get Over This) Some Day, a duet with Rosanne Cash, with Sometimes I Wonder, a “my time ain’t long” blues.
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