Elliot Murphy & Iain Matthews, La Terre Commune - 58m 39s

Tracks & Durations

1. One Cold Street	4:40
2. Blind Willie McTell	6:11
3. Close to the Bone	5:26
4. Navy Blue	5:56
5. Darkness, Darkness	4:53
6. Big Umbrella	3:34
7. She's a Mystery	3:41
8. I Want to Talk to You	3:48
9. Fading Fast	3:52
10. Dusty Roses	4:57
11. The Ballad of a Soldier's Wife	3:44
12. Sad Eyes	3:21
13. Unconditionally	4:28

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Review

In the '70s, Elliott Murphy emerged as one of the more highly touted artists cursed with the "new Dylan" tag (his style was more like a cross between the Velvet Underground and F. Scott Fitzgerald) while British folk-rocker Iain Matthews parlayed stints with Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort into a successful solo career. Journeyman troubadours during subsequent decades, the two find common ground of artistic renewal through this collaboration. Both the opening "One Cold Street" and the Springsteenesque "I Want to Talk to You" rock harder than expected, while forays into the songbooks of Dylan ("Blind Willie McTell"), Brecht/Weill ("The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife"), Springsteen himself ("Sad Eyes"), and others reflect the duo's interpretive range. Both contribute strong original material as well, with Matthews's sweet tenor complementing Murphy's raspier bite on an album that compares favorably with each artist's best. --Don McLeese

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