John Flynn, Two Wolves - 49m 59s

Tracks & Durations

1. Two Wolves	4:56
2. There's No Them There (Nomoreau's Anthem)	4:34
3. Dover	4:05
4. My Father's Chapel	3:13
5. Blink	3:12
6. Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is	5:07
7. Azizulla	3:20
8. No More War	4:12
9. Pleasures Of The Harbor	6:01
10. Sunflower	3:54
11. Hall Of Angels	4:06
12. Trust The Rope	3:13

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Review

John Flynn is the kind of musician for whom protest music isn't a revived fad, dusted off and carried on the back of the war in Iraq, but a way of life, an activist's call for peace. Working in the direct and simple folk framework of the '60s (though he fleshes out his arrangements with restrained percussion and cello), Flynn employs an Arlo Guthrie-like tone of uncomplicated political morality. Though he sometimes treads the thin line between poetry and preachiness, his original songs nonetheless pack a wallop. "Dover" describes a U.S.-bound plane full of the bodies of fallen soldiers, all of whom we come to know as individuals, while the title song deftly turns on the Native American teachings of love and hatred. Still, Flynn benefits from two wisely chosen covers: Kris Kristofferson's luminous "Hall of Angels" (with a cameo vocal from the writer) and Phil Ochs's sad and haunting "Pleasures of the Harbor." Flynn is no special shakes as a vocalist, but one turns to him for conscience, not crooning. --Alanna NashWhile John Flynn has drawn ovations as well as invective from audiences unaccustomed to this sort of candor, he has never before put the pieces together with the insight reflected on Two Wolves. The wonder of this album is that it speaks to listeners as if it had emerged from their own inner world.

Songs of faith ("My Father's Chapel"), songs of hope ("Trust the Rope"), songs that measure our tolerance for hypocrisy ("Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is") and our capacity for savoring the pleasures of love ("Sunflower"): with subtle metaphor and the plain poetry of common speech, with simple incantation ("No More War") and snapshot imagery ("Blink"), these songs convey essential messages, wrapped like gifts in the colors of music.

Teamed with a superlative cast that includes guitarists Duke Levine (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bill Morrissey) and Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Dar Williams), drummer Denny McDermott (Roseanne Cash, Donald Fagen), singer Jane Kelly Williams, producer Ben Wisch (Marc Cohn, Patty Larkin) and special guests Kathy Mattea and Kris Kristofferson, Flynn has it all on Two Wolves: a great band, powerful material, and a resolution to live and sing as he must at this stage of life.

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