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Dinosaur Jr bassist Mike Johnson (an Oregon
native), who had already collaborated to
Mark Lanegan's albums, launched his solo
career with two collections of pensive and funereal ballads a` la
Leonard Cohen,
Where Am I (Up, 1994), containing Down The Line and
Overland, and
Year Of Mondays (Atlantic, 1996), containing
One Way Out. The gentle, tender, melancholy
soulfulness of these works compares favorably with Lanegan's masterpieces.
His melancholy, deep baritone pens the angst of Where Am I and
Left In The Dark, while Circle is unusually upbeat and the
lengthy Eclipse and Overdrive up the ante of his music.
I Feel Alright (Up, 1998), instead, is a cover album that
shows the limits of the auteaur.
What Would You Do (Up, 2002) is another somber, dejected collection
that re-establishes Johnson as the Leonard Cohen of the early 2000s.
The autumnal, ghostly meditations of
Remember and Hidden Away, the fragile texture of
Arise (tenor sax and trumpet), the icy orchestration of
Requiem are as profound as laconic.
One spasm of rock'n'roll (Come Back Again) nicely contrasts with
the album's uniform sadness.
The less inspired
Gone Out Of Your Mind (Up, 2006) roasted his ghostly ballads in the
fire of distorted guitar that was more typical of Neil Young's
hysterical fits.
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Il bassista Mike Johnson, che aveva gia` collaborato ai dischi di
Mark Lanegan, e` anche titolare di due
album di ballate funeree e accorate alla Leonard Cohen,
Where Am I (Up, 1994), con Down The Line e
Overland, e
Year Of Mondays (Atlantic, 1996), che fanno invidia allo stesso Lanegan.
I Feel Alright (Up, 1998) e` invece una raccolta prevalentemente di
cover che ridimensiona il personaggio.
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