Search - J.D. Souther :: If the World Was You

Wow! This IS good.

MicTimMul | maryland, usa | 03/01/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Like a few others here I am a longtime appreciator. I always liked the songs Mr. Souther wrote with others, even when I didn't like everything the others wrote. Twenty-five or more years later I still love "You're Only Lonely". So this new thing is 25 years after. It's recorded live with jazz players. It references Blue Note and it shows growth and breadth. The 70s ended a long time ago. Those records (remember records?) were packed with some of the best studio players around and it WAS just slick. But this is a different time, and a lot of people have graduated from back then and wound up here. Here is a very different place. The world is a vastly different place and so is the music industry. But JD Souther is a talented guy and he's managed to make a very listenable piece of work with a different feel. It's not that oh-so-great-classic-rock-album but it is extraordinarily accessible. There's some of what we knew back then, but a lot of what is good is how things change. Smaller, easier, but it shows craftsmanship. There's a lot of good new music out there. Some of it by new people, some of it by old friends. Some of it is hugely produced and some of it isn't. This is clearly of the latter on both counts. But it's good, real good, and it is wonderful to find something from an old favorite that is seriously worth a listen. So yeah, get yourself one. Get one for someone younger who wouldn't know melody if it hit them over the head. Oh hey, one more thing. If you don't have 13 minutes in your life to listen to one thing then you are doing something wrong."