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Robert Palmer - Drive (2003) U.K. Pressing (Bonus Tracks)

Date: 6 Aug 2012 07:03:03

Drive is a 2003 album by British musician Robert Palmer, his fourteenth solo studio album, and his last album before his death. Although Drive was released in 2003, all work on the project was completed by November 2002. The release date had to be delayed due to the length of the recording. Compendia Records wanted to cut two additional songs from the project which Robert Palmer had written and Palmer wanted to keep the songs on the recording. Eventually Robert Palmer agreed with the record company in 2003 and allowed the two songs to be cut, accounting for its delayed release date. Drive was originally slated to be released in December 2002. Drive was critically hailed as the grittiest and most heartfelt album of his career. Initially approached by guitarist Carl Carlton to contribute to the 2001 Robert Johnson tribute album Hellhound on My Trail, for which Palmer recorded "Milk Cow's Calf Blues" with Carlton on guitars, Palmer was then invited by Faye Dunaway to provide the soundtrack to her 2001 directorial debut The Yellow Bird, set in Mississippi and New Orleans during the 1940s and 1950s. Palmer took both signs as a good omen, and the impetus for Drive was born. After more thoroughly researching this particular genre of music, Palmer assembled a list of fifty possible tracks, and then began the arduous task of whittling that list down to a manageable set of twelve. The selections from Drive can best be described as a loose collection of both standard and contemporary blues compositions (Robert Johnson, Little Willie John, Keb' Mo'), with a smattering of other genres, including folk (Nicolai Dunger) and calypso (Mighty Sparrow), prompting Palmer to call the end result "a gut-buckety swamp thing." The recording and mixing of Drive took place in both Logic Studios (Milan, Italy) and Palmer's home studio (Lugano, Switzerland), with his long-time, trusted engineer Pino "Pinaxa" Pischetola at the mixing board. Because of the satisfaction and enthusiasm having recording the initial twelve songs, Palmer decided to cut three more tracks ("29 Ways [To My Baby's Door]," "It Hurts Me Too," "Stupid Cupid"), this time at the Sphere in London, England, with Ben Georgiades engineering the sessions. The album peaked at #10 on the US Blues albums chart.

It's hard not to write with a bit of sentiment given Robert Palmer's recent death, but this album stands as a fine, if inadvertant, tribute to one of the great popular music artists of the past 40 years. More than anything, Palmer was one of modern music's best arrangers, a talent that is little recognized in the restrictive world of rock music. He put his inimitable stamp on whatever he touched, and never more distinctly than on Drive. He does rock, but it isn't a rock album. He does blues, but it isnt a blues album. Drive is Palmer mining his seemingly bottomless reservoir of joyfully idiosyncratic musical ideas. From his vocal phrasing to the way he refreshes old rhythms, Palmer excites the senses. It is apt that his youthful influences were the likes of Basie and Ellington, because, like them, he didn't succumb to the idiotic predictability that quickly afflicts almost all "rock stars," and especially those who had huge hits. Palmer was still making exciting music in his fourth decade in the rock business! Who else can that be said about? Only Ry Cooder comes to mind. Of course, neither has allowed himself to be confined within the suffocating boundary of rock.Drive very much deserves a listen, and I cannot do justice to what you will hear. I will say that anyone who can not only equal but best Big Mama Thornton's version of Hound Dog has accomplished something special.The U.S. release of Drive is missing some songs that are on the U.K. CD. It is worth a few extra dollars to buy the U.K. disc from Amazon UK.Reviewed by Nicolas S. Martin amazon.com

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Robert Palmer / Drive [U.K. Edition]

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01. Mama Talk To Your Daughter (J. B. Lenoir, Alex Atkins) (2:27)
02. Why Get Up? (Bill Carter, Ruth Ellsworth) (3:01)
03. Who's Fooling Who? (Steve Barri, Michael Omartian, Harvey Price, Daniel Walsh) (2:49)
04. Am I Wrong? (Kevin R. Moore, aka Keb' Mo') (2:04)
05. TV Dinners (Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill) (3:24)
06. Lucky (Carl Carlton, Robert Palmer) (2:22)
07. Stella (Slinger Francisco) (3:59)
08. Dr Zhivago's Train (Nicolai Dunger) (3:58)
09. Ain't That Just Like A Woman (Claude Demetrius, Fleecy Moore) (1:59)
10. Hound Dog (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) (2:03)
11. Crazy Cajun Cake Walk Band (Jim Ford, Lolly Vegas, Pat Vegas) (3:08)
12. Need Your Love So Bad (Mertis John Jr.) (2:14)

U.K. Bonus Tracks:

13. 29 Ways (To My Baby's Door) (Willie Dixon) (2:42)
14. It Hurts Me Too (Melvin R. London) (2:17)
15. Stupid Cupid (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) (2:10)
16. Milk Cow's Calf Blues (Robert Johnson) (2:20)

Album Released on May 12, 2003

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