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Turf (CD)

By: Luka Bloom (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Turf (CD) Album By Luka Bloom (Artist)
1   Cold Comfort  
2   True Blue  
3   Diamond Mountain  
4   Right Here, Right Now  
5   Sunny Sailor Boy  
6   Black Is The Colour  
7   To Begin To  
8   Freedom Song  
9   Holding Back The River  
10   Background Noise  
11   Fertile Rock, The  
12   I Did Time  
13   Sanctuary  
 

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Review

Q (9/94, p.98) - 3 Stars - Good - "...an extraordinary acoustic guitar sound that flows from the speakers....Bloom could carve himself a profitable niche..."

Title Note

Personnel: Luka Bloom (vocals, guitar); Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh (vocals).

Producers: Paul Ashe-Browne, Brian Masterson, Luka Bloom.

Engineers: Paul Ashe-Browne, Brian Masterson.

Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland.

Luka Bloom seems more influenced by geography than most singer/songwriters. If RIVERSIDE was the sound of an Irishman in Chinatown (as one song so aptly put it), and THE ACOUSTIC MOTORBIKE was a return home to the traditional rhythms of Irish folk music, TURF stands apart from geography, cohesively blending the themes of both previous albums.

This time however, besides a few embellishments, the album is almost entirely Bloom and his guitar alone (four tracks were recorded live in a pub). Working without a net seems to bring out the best in his songwriting, including a newfound ability to address weighty subjects; "Freedom Song" evokes not only Dublin squatters but American civil rights icon Rosa Parks in a stark statement of the universality of human rights. However, TURF also addresses less weighty concerns; "Holding Back the River" and "Right Here Right Now" show that Luka Bloom seems to write beautiful love songs as easily as buying a pint. As always, his choice of covers is impeccable. This time around he tackles both old-school Irish traditional music in "Black is the Color," and the neo-traditional Irish revival in Waterboy Mike Scott's "Sunny Sailor Boy."

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