Cat No:
MIG50022
Release Date: 12 May 2014
Label: Mig Music
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 885513500229
Genres: Rock Rock 'N' Roll
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Description
While Mott the Hoople were one of the greatest British rock bands of the 1970s, they were also a band unafraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves, and it's hard to imagine any other group of pile-driving boogie merchants who could have gotten away with songs as emotionally naked as "Sea Diver," "Hymn for the Dudes," or "I Wish I Was Your Mother."
Nearly 30 years after Mott the Hoople called it a day, frontman Ian Hunter was still rocking out, but he hadn't lost touch with his inner softie either, and this live album, recorded during a pair of Oslo concerts in early 2002, gives him the chance to put his more personal side front and center for an evening.
Recorded with a primarily acoustic band and a large string section helping out, Strings Attached features a set of Mott the Hoople classics and great songs from Hunter's solo career as he demonstrates the blend of hard-edged sentimentality and street smarts that has informed so much of his best work.
In typical neo-Unplugged fashion, Strings Attached doesn't rock much, but it has a bit more backbone than you might expect the stripped-down versions of "All the Way From Memphis" and "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" are good rollicking fun and it finds Hunter in strong voice, calling up the sort of passion that marks his best music.
Part of what makes Hunter's songs so effective is the way he can tap into the deeper and more complex emotions that lurk inside even the toughest rocker's heart, and put them into song in a way that honors their delicacy without sounding mushy or saccharine. Strings Attached gives Hunter the space to honor this side of his repertoire, and the results are both good fun and emotionally potent stuff. So go on, grab a beer, sing along, and don't fight that lump in your throat - that's what Ian Hunter wrote these songs for in the first place. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Rest In Peace
- 2. All Of The Good Ones Are Taken
- 3. I Wish I Was Your Mother
- 4. Twisted Steel
- 5. Boy
- 6. 23A Swan Hill
- 7. Waterlow
- 8. All The Young Dudes
- 9. Irene Wilde
- 10. Once Bitten Twice Shy
- 1. Rollerball
- 2. Ships
- 3. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
- 4. Michael Picasso
- 5. Wash Us Away
- 6. Don't Let Go
- 7. All The Way From Memphis
- 8. Roll Away The Stone
- 9. Saturday Gigs
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