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That Lucky Old Sun * (CD)

By: Brian Wilson (Artist)

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DISC 1 for That Lucky Old Sun * (CD) Album By Brian Wilson (Artist)
1   That Lucky Old Sun
2   Morning Beat
3   Narrative: Room With a View
4   Good Kind of Love
5   Forever My Surfer Girl
6   Narrative: Venice Beach
7   Live Let Live
8   Mexican Girl
9   Narrative: Cinco De Mayo
10   California Role
11   Narrative: Between Pictures
12   Oxygen
13   Can't Wait Too Long
14   Midnight's Another Day
15   Lucky Old Sun [Reprise]
16   Going Home
17   Southern California
18   Roll-Around Heaven [Reprise]  
 
DISC 2 for That Lucky Old Sun * (CD) Album By Brian Wilson (Artist)
1   Making Of The Album  
2   Good Kind Of Love - (live)  
3   Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl - (live)  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.70) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e sings with a reborn will, even when the truth hurts....It has a natural, hopeful flow that leaves you warm all over."
Rolling Stone (p.92) - Ranked #27 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "This modest treasure has the same warm glow of the Beach Boys' WILD HONEY."
Spin (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Sweetly and unmistakably, THAT LUCKY OLD SUN limns the sunset of Wilson's career, while still showing how California is at its most beautiful through his eyes."
Paste (magazine) (p.60) - "[A]lternately gorgeous and gut-wrenching....If you are about this tortured genius and his music, THAT LUCKY OLD SUN is an essential yet gripping narrative."

Title Note

Personnel: Brian Wilson (vocals, keyboards); Jeffrey Foskett (guitar, ukulele, background vocals); Probyn Gregory (guitars, trumpet, French horn, background vocals); Nick Walusko (guitars, background vocals); Scott Bennett (Spanish guitar, keyboards, vibraphone, bass instrument, background vocals); Paul Von Mertens (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Darian Sahanaja (keyboards, bells, background vocals); Bob Lizik (bass instrument); Todd Sucherman (drums); Nelson Bragg (percussion, background vocals); Taylor Mills (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Scott Bennett; Michael Corcoran; Brian Wilson .

Arrangers: Paul Von Mertens; Darian Sahanaja; Scott Bennett; Brian Wilson .

Seldom has an album had as much to live up to as THAT LUCKY OLD SUN. When Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks wrote the iconic song suite SMILE some four decades earlier, they created the definitive art-pop statement, inspiring countless imitators for years to come. It's a gutsy move for Wilson to create a new album-length suite in 2008 in collaboration with Parks and bandmate Scott Bennett, a work that will unavoidably be compared to the unmatchable SMILE.

LUCKY OLD SUN isn't SMILE's sequel; rather, it's an extended meditation on the pop myth Wilson and the other Beach Boys created in the '60s--L.A. as eternal summer-land, a surf-sand-and-hot-rod-heaven. Naturally, the music references the Beach Boys' classics, teeming with rich, close vocal harmonies, lilting, piano-driven song structures, and sunny, sophisticated melodic lines that will send a chill up the spine of anyone who's ever absorbed the sunshine-pop majesty of PET SOUNDS. Sure, Wilson's voice is a bit worn with age, but there's no attempt to duplicate the epic sweep of SMILE. THAT LUCKY OLD SUN succeeds on its own terms.

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