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Tumbleweed Connection
7", 180 grams, Import
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Track Listings
1 | Ballad Of A Well - Known Gun (Side A) |
2 | Come Down In Time (Side A) |
3 | Country Comfort (Side A) |
4 | Son Of Your Father (Side A) |
5 | My Father's Gun (Side A) |
6 | Where To Now St. Peter? (Side B) |
7 | Love Song (Side B) |
8 | Amoreena (Side B) |
9 | Talking Old Soldiers (Side B) |
10 | Burn Down The Mission (Side B) |
Editorial Reviews
On Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John and Bernie Taupin attempted their most ambitious record to date for the follow-up to their breakthrough album. A loose concept album about the American West, Tumbleweed Connection emphasized the pretensions that always lay beneath their songcraft. Remastered on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 12.36 x 12.36 x 0.31 inches; 8.32 ounces
- Manufacturer : Mercury
- Original Release Date : 2017
- Date First Available : May 12, 2017
- Label : Mercury
- ASIN : B071LBDD3C
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,337 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,490 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
- #3,155 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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I'm happy I made the decision to download it. The new mixes are wonderful, feeling more nuanced and cleaner than what I remembered. Many of the songs are indeed timeless. Elton's vocals are still fresh and muscular and the listener is drawn in to his obvious feeling for them. The most dated material on the album is "Country Comfort", a bit of 1970's fake Country Rock but even that's not too hard on the ears, and the cover of "Love Song" which is pretty but a bit on the hippie-dippy side.
However, contained in this album are probably two of the loveliest pop songs ever written: The ravishing and brooding "Come Down In Time" and the mystical "Where To Now, St. Peter?" If John and Taupin had never written another song these two would be reason enough to celebrate them. The album also contains a long, bluesy version of "Madman Across the Water" which should have been the version they used on the original album.
If you are hesitant to purchase Elton John's music because of his later shlock, give this a listen and I think you'll find the musician you were looking for.
So what does he do? He records an album defined in its cover and in most of its key songs with the American west of a century before, not country music so much as Western outlaw mythmaking.
All this might be just thought peculiar if the result wasn't one of his greatest albums, maybe his greatest. Not best-selling, but best-loved, at least by those who have taken the time and expense to look deeper into his catalog than just the hits.
If you enjoy Elton's hits, particularly from his classic years (1970-1976) and want to buy an album which reflects them, don't buy this. Better to buy an album like "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player" or "Honky Chateau," which have some of those hits mixed with other good tracks and a couple of duffers. "Tumbleweed" is different in that every song is good, bar none, but none are ones you will recognize readily with the possible exception of "Burn Down The Mission." Frankly, that makes "Tumbleweed" more enjoyable to listen to: "Amoreena," a rousing blues shuffle, doesn't suffer from the same radio overplay problem that "Bennie And The Jets" (from "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road") has, but it's every bit as passionate and enjoyable when you listen to it. The secret is to listen to "Tumbleweed" more than once. Like all good pop music, this album benefits from repeat listens. It will grow on you, and in a good non-"Macarena" way.
The cowboy theme doesn't come off as forced or phony, either. Elton's lyricist Bernie Taupin was every bit as British as his buddy, but he had a real attachment to the time and the feel of the Wild West, particularly as it came across in movies he watched when he was a kid. He filters this into a number of the songs, like the opener "Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun" and "Country Comfort," a sly charmer. "Talking Old Soldiers" and "My Father's Gun" seem to take on the legacy of the American Civil War from two different viewpoints, and the first of these songs is particularly compelling in the lyrical department, though Taupin's lyrics in "Tumbleweed" are sharp across the board.
Even the non-Western songs take on a Western feeling by way of association. "Come Down In Time," about loneliness and unrequited love, could be set in any period, but lines like "There are women/Some hold you tight/And some leave you counting/The stars in the night" makes me think of cowboys lying by a campfire. "Love Song" is the one obvious misfit, since it's not even remotely identifiable in that way; that's a very early '70s-sounding song with music and lyrics by Lesley Duncan, Elvis's singing partner for just this song. But "Love Song" is a solid charmer with intriguing production not as simple as it seems. It's affecting seeing Elton share his spotlight with an obscure singer who makes the most of her opportunity.
While they are no real rockers on "Tumbleweed," only "Love Song" and "Talking Old Soldiers" are slow ballads, with the rest moving at least a little, some a lot. "Burn Down The Mission" winds the album down in an exciting, swirling way that is most characteristic of Elton as he would become known commercially. Two bonus tracks are included with the CD, one being "Into The Old Man's Shoes," very much in tune with "Tumbleweed's" themes and on par with the rest quality-wise; the other being an alternate treatment of "Madman Across The Water," title track from Elton's next studio album, with some nifty guitar work from the late Mick Ronson. I don't know why they didn't add this track to the "Madman" reissue (which has no bonus tracks), but just by virtue of being different genre-wise, it helps demonstrate just how unique and gemlike the rest of "Tumbleweed" is to Elton's canon.
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Tiene temas muy similares del disco predecesor pero en general lo encuentro bastante flojo.
Prefiero claramente el segundo disco homónimo; pero tiene temas buenos que sospecho que quedarían fuera de la edición del segundo.