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| Popmatters |
 Stalwart producer/songwriter and former Eurythmic Dave Stewart offers up the most atypical record of his career to date with this Nashville-recorded effort. It’s arguably one of the most successfully executed sidesteps in pop music. Featuring guest turns from new NPR darlings the Secret Sisters, plus Stevie Nicks, Martina McBride (John McBride is an associate producer and engineer on the album) and Colbie Caillat, The Blackbird Diaries further cements Stewart’s reputation as an ace writer and performer. There’s a temptation here to refer to the 13-song album as Stewart’s country album and no doubt future rock historians will give in to said temptation but it’s an inaccurate description. Beaucoups of Blues was Ringo Starr’s country album and it was country end to end; The Blackbird Diaries has elements of country and yet fully retains plenty of rock and pop pleasures throughout. Recorded in a furious five days in Music City and written, more or less, in a little more than that time, the album opens with the blues-y “So Long Ago” in which Stewart reminisces about R.L. Burnside, Mississippi John Hurt, the Rolling Stones, and his own travels from being a young man to a man with some years and experience behind him. It’s touching without being overly sentimental and sentimental without being filled with a choking sense of nostalgia....full text |
| Telegraph |
| The former Eurythmics star lays down his synthesizers to explore his love of country rock. He’s a gifted producer and song craftsman, and this album sounds fantastic, but it’s let down by pedestrian lyrics. The curse of the eternal sideman, Stewart’s singing lacks authority. Highlights are all duets with strong women, notably Stevie Nicks....full text |
| Musicradar |
| "It happened when there were all of those volcanic eruptions in Iceland in 2010," says the 58-year-old Stewart. "Air travel was pretty much at a standstill throughout Europe for a while. So, not being able to go anywhere, I decided to visit my favorite guitar street, Denmark Street, in London. I was in this shop, and I my eyes went right to this Gretsch Rancher, an acoustic with a very funny shape. The guy at the shop told me he'd bought the guitar at an auction some 20 years before in Texas." Stewart opened the guitar case and discovered songbooks and photos that had belonged to the original owner, many of them dating back to 1950s Nashville. "Looking through it all, it was as if I were becoming part of a story. The tug of Nashville was quite strong." Once it was safe to travel, the Grammy Award-winning artist/writer/producer, and former half of Eurythmics, made his way to Nashville, where he hooked up with John and Martina McBride at their Blackbird Studio. From there, things fell together quickly. The McBrides introduced Stewart to a stellar cast of studio musicians - guitarist Tom Bukovac, drummer Chad Cromwell, bassist Michael Rhodes, steel guitarist Dan Dugmore and Mike Rojas on piano - who backed up the veteran British hitmaker on The Blackbird Diaries. The 12-song set, due out 28 June (although in the US, Canada and Australia it will be issued 24 August), also features appearances by Stevie Nicks, Colbie Caillat, the Secret Sisters and Martina McBride. But Stewart hasn't been concentrating solely on his own record: he recently produced Nicks' new album, In Your Dreams, Joss Stone's upcoming disc, LP1, and has penned a musical adaptation of the movie Ghost with writer/producer Glen Ballard that is set to open on London's West End soon. And if that weren't enough, in September Stewart will unveil an intriguing 'supergroup' Super Heavy, in which he's teamed with Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Damien Marley and AR Rahman. "Some might say it's an odd mix," says Stewart. "But that's kind of what I do: I take disparate talents, put them all together and see if I can come up with something new and different. With Super Heavy, I'd say that's been realized."...full text |
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