ACOUSTIC MOTORBIKE

BLOOM, LUKA

Genre: music4me > pop > folk

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 10 Feb 1992

Catalogue Number: 7599266702

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Description:
This is Luka Bloom's second album, and it remains an astounding achievement. Like many Irishmen, he has a deep need to brood and give voice to his melancholy. He does so with such grace and passion, that it is hard to not get swept up by his emotional power. At the same time, he's got a delightfully inspiring sense of humor. How else would you explain a faithfully rendered version of LL Cool J's "I Need Love," performed as if it were truly a folk ballad, complete with a fiddler in the fade? Luka's beauty also rests in his national pride, most evident in "This Is Your Country" and in the disc's closing number "Be Well." I remember having to explain the line "an Atlantic sunset fills your mind" to a man who thought that Luka had committed a ridiculous geographical gaffe. But it's easy to hear his commitment to this music in his voice. Only once on "The Acoustic Motorbike" is there a slip into the lyrically awkward, and that his attempt at the vaguely political "Listen To the Hoofbeat." There is still enough firepower musically to cover that minor quibble.

Track Listing:

1.	Mary Watches Everything
2.	You
3.	I Believe In You
4.	I Need Love
5.	Exploring The Blue
6.	This Is Your Country
7.	Acoustic Motorbike
8.	Can't Help Falling In Love
9.	Bones
10.	Bridge Of Sorrow
11.	Listen To The Hoofbeat
12.	Be Well