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Titel: Wires from the Bunker
Zustand: New
Format: CD
EAN: 0611587104724
Genre: Folk
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Label problems prevented John from releasing this album, which was recorded immediately after his 1979 smash Bombs Away Dream Babies LP. So now, here it is for the first time, with appearances by Lindsay Buckingham and John's ex-Kingston Trio mate Nick Reynolds and featuring 18 tracks of folk-rock greatness!

AMAZON
The summer of 1979 seemed to be John Stewart's season. With the brooding hit "Gold," the former Kingston Trio member attained the chart success that had long alluded him. A year and a half later, he had no label, no chance for a follow-up. But in the early '80s, Stewart was making some very catchy, literate, and accessible pop music. These unreleased (and nearly destroyed) early '80s demos are the evidence. Stewart reworks some old Kingston Trio numbers, some gems from his '60s and '70s country-folk career, and adds many new lyrics, never heard before or since. The demo sound--a bit tinny and remote--doesn't do justice to the fine songwriting contained here, nor does the occasionally overwrought and overly rocking arrangements. More streamlined, almost Byrds-like efforts such as "Cheyenne" and "Diamonds in the Coal" get closer to the poetic soul of Stewart's folk-rock vision. Newcomers might be perplexed by this spotty compilation, but those passionate about this underappreciated journeyman singer-songwriter will warmly welcome the discoveries. --Roy Kasten

REVIEW
"Hypnotic folk-rock at its best." -- Chicago Tribune, October 2000

"Of the 18 cuts, a good dozen are album-ready, major-to- minor gems...The demo-ish curios are never less than interesting." -- All Music Guide, October 2000

ABOUT THE ARTIST
To the baby-boomers of the Fifties, John Stewarts name is synonymous with the Kingston Trio, whose early Sixties hits "Tom Dooley" and "Greenback Dollar" brought folk music out of the coffeehouses and onto campuses, concert halls and radio playlists. To mid-Sixties teenyboppers, John Stewart was the pen behind the Monkees #1 hit, "Daydream Believer." To rock fans in the Seventies, John was that friend of Fleetwood Macs Lindsey Buckingham who scored a hit single ("Gold") co-produced by Buckingham, and a Top 10 album that featured Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as guest musicians. To country fans in the Eighties, John is the author of Rosanne Cashs version Number One hit, "Runaway Train." Most enduringly, to fans of the singer-songwriter movement that began at the end of the Sixties and has expanded into the Americana and alt.country genres, Stewart is a figure of uncompromising talent and integrity.

Born in Southern California in 1939, Stewart wrote his first song at age 10. After outgrowing his high school rock band, Stewart turned his songwriting and performing skills to folk while he was in college, and two of his compositions were recorded by the Kingston Trio, riding high on their pop-folk hits. At the urging of the Trios manager, Stewart moved to San Francisco and formed the Cumberland Three, a Trio-styled group that recorded an album for Roulette.

When founding member Dave Guard left the Trio in 1961, John was his logical replacement, providing banjo, guitar, on-stage humor and, most importantly, original material. The Trio recorded more than two dozen Stewart compositions during his seven-year tenure with them, including "One More Town," pegged by Paul Simon as the inspiration for his own "Feelin Groovy." During his final days with the group, he wrote "Daydream Believer," which became a worldwide hit for The Monkees and, years later, for Anne Murray.

With folk music as the soundtrack to activism in the Sixties, John took part in the March for Freedom in Selma, Alabama, and also joined his friend Robert Kennedys Senatorial campaign. In 1968, Stewart again stumped for Kennedy, this time in the latters tragically curtailed run for the U.S. presidency. That same year, Stewart left the Trio after a 16-album stint and recorded SIGNALS THROUGH THE GLASS with his wife-to-be, Buffy Ford Stewart. The following year, Stewart went to Nashville to record his first solo album, CALIFORNIA BLOODLINES, later chosen as one of the 200 Best Albums of All Time by a Rolling Stone critics poll. More solo albums and more cover versions of Stewart songs followed; Johns songs have been covered by everyone from Harry Belafonte and Pat Boone to Joan Baez and Nanci Griffith, from the Four Tops and the Lovin Spoonful to the Violent Femmes and the Beat Farmers.

In 1979, John returned to the charts himself with "Gold," a Top 5 single from his Top 10 album BOMBS AWAY DREAM BABIES, co-produced and played on by longtime Stewart fan and Fleetwood Mac leader Buckingham. The album spun off two more Top 20 songs, but the lack of sales for its successor led to a parting of the ways between John and his record label. Since the start of the Eighties, John has been releasing live and archival tracks on a variety of labels. In 1999 he briefly formed his first group since leaving the Trio, John Stewart & Darwins Army, for an album of mostly folk-oriented classics on Appleseed, which continues to issue new Stewart material.









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Herstellungsland und -region: USA
Anzahl der Scheiben: 1
Interpret: John Stewart
Musiklabel: Appleseed Records
Sprache: Englisch

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