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Ben Harper - 2006 - Both Sides Of The Gun (2016 HDtracks) [[email protected]]
Artist: Ben Harper
Title: Both Sides Of The Gun (2016 HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 18 files FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 24bit 88.2kHz (HDtracks)
Producer: Ben Harper
Release Date: March 21, 2006, (2016 HDtracks)
Recorded: The Boat Studios, Silver Lake, California by Danny Kalb
Label: Virgin (i)
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Folk Rock, Alternative Rock, Blues Rock, Soul Rock, Funk Rock
Duration: 63:47
Ben Harper:
Wikipedia:
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005. He also won a Grammy for Best Blues Album in 2014.
Both Sides Of The Gun:
Wikipedia:
Both Sides of the Gun, is a Ben Harper album released in 2006. Split into two discs, the title suggests the two sides of Harper's musical nature. The first disc ("White"
is made of mostly acoustic and string-driven songs hinted at on the last track ("She's Only Happy In The Sun" of Harper's previous album Diamonds on the Inside. The second disc ("Black" is made up of the more rock and upbeat material and touching on genres such as hard rock, funk and gospel.
The album saw Harper playing the majority of the instruments on both discs; an approach that he had rarely used on his previous albums. However, the Innocent Criminals would appear on a few tracks whilst his later band, Relentless7, would appear together for the first time on "Serve Your Soul", the last track on the second disc.
The album became Harper's first US top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 200 album charts, entering and peaking at number seven on its release. To date, it is his highest album entry in that chart.
AllMusic Review by Marisa Brown:
After seven albums and 12 years in the game, it can stop being said that Ben Harper is hard to categorize, because at this point, the fact that he always incorporates diverse elements -- from folk to hard rock to funk -- into his music and makes something very much his own is a given. He's practically created a genre. So maybe that's why it's so surprising that Both Sides of the Gun, a two-disc album, has little of that very thing that makes him so unique. Instead, he chooses to show off the range of his musical interests, and ends up with something closer to a compilation than a Ben Harper album. The softer, acoustically based disc is full of pretty love songs and sweetly strummed guitars, and though Harper has done this before and kept his own style intact (in "Two Hands of a Prayer" and "When She Believes," for example), here he comes off sounding a bit boring. He hasn't forgotten himself completely: both "Never Leave Lonely Alone" and "Crying Won't Help You Now" are good songs, sounding strongly of him while also experimenting with other styles (Latin/French and gospel, respectively), but almost all the other tracks could have been pulled off any run-of-the-mill singer/songwriter album from the past ten years. Things improve slightly on the other, louder, disc ("Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating" is all electric blues, complete with a distorted slide guitar solo, and "Serve Your Soul" is the most Harper-ish of everything, blending folk guitar, pure rock, raw blues, and socially conscious lyrics into one eight-minute masterpiece), but there's still that sampler-record feeling there. "Engraved Invitation" and "Get It Like You Like It" are heavily influenced by the Rolling Stones, "Both Sides of the Gun" alludes to Curtis Mayfield and James Brown, and "Better Way" is practically a tribute (at least musically) to Prince's "7." Harper has always borrowed from other artists, but he's also always added enough of himself to make it not quite so...blatant. It's not that he isn't able to perform such a diverse selection: there are plenty of excellent cuts and most of the album is quite good. Harper is a fantastically talented musician, and he has really developed his voice since Diamonds on the Inside and is unafraid to do things with it, going from a croon to a scream and always sounding great. But why he's copying other people's styles instead of building on his own is both odd and disappointing, because he's always been able to experiment before while also preserving his individuality. If in Both Sides of the Gun Harper is trying to show his audience what a wide variety of music he can cover, he certainly accomplishes that. But if he's trying to create an album that is really about him, he doesn't quite deliver. Ben Harper is in there, don't worry, but he can be a little hard to find.
Tracklist:
Disc 1 - White:
01. Morning Yearning (4:09)
02. Waiting For You (3:33)
03. Picture In A Frame (4:37)
04. Never Leave Lonely Alone (2:51)
05. Sweet Nothing Serenade (2:45)
06. Reason To Mourn (4:30)
07. More Than Sorry (3:25)
08. Cryin' Won't Help You Now (2:34)
09. Happy Everafter In Your Eyes (2:24)
Disc 1 - Black:
01. Better Way (3:59)
02. Both Sides Of The Gun (2:49)
03. Engraved Invitation (2:56)
04. Black Rain (2:55)
05. Gather 'Round The Stone (3:11)
06. Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating (2:32)
07. Get It Like You Like It (3:25)
08. The Way You Found Me (2:53)
09. Serve Your Soul (8:19)
Personnel:
Ben Harper - Vocals, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, Weissenborn, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, piano, vibes,
Juan Nelson - Bass
Oliver Francis Charles - Drums
Leon Mobley - Percussion
Jason Yates - Keys
Matt Cory - Bass
Michael Ward - Guitar, bass
JP Plunier - Drums
Charlie Musselwhite - Backing vocals
David Lindley - Tambura
Greg Kurstin - Hammond B3
Marc Ford - Guitar
Alyssa Park, Joel Pargman, Patrick Rosalez, Brett Banducci, Timothy Loo - Strings
David Palmer - Keys
Danny Kalb - Guitar, sound engineer
Jan Ghazi - Electric guitar, backing vocals
Nick Sandro - Bass, backing vocals
Jason Mozersky - Guitar
Scott Thomas - Backing vocals
Jose Medeles - Drums
Jesse Ingulls - Bass
Jordan Richardson - Drums
William Gus Seyffert - Bass
Ellen Harper, Sue Chase, Michelle Griepentrog, Jennifer Ohrstrom, Natasha Cockrell - Backing vocals
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Artist: Ben Harper
Title: Both Sides Of The Gun (2016 HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 18 files FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 24bit 88.2kHz (HDtracks)
Producer: Ben Harper
Release Date: March 21, 2006, (2016 HDtracks)
Recorded: The Boat Studios, Silver Lake, California by Danny Kalb
Label: Virgin (i)
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Folk Rock, Alternative Rock, Blues Rock, Soul Rock, Funk Rock
Duration: 63:47
Ben Harper:
Wikipedia:
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005. He also won a Grammy for Best Blues Album in 2014.
Both Sides Of The Gun:
Wikipedia:
Both Sides of the Gun, is a Ben Harper album released in 2006. Split into two discs, the title suggests the two sides of Harper's musical nature. The first disc ("White"
is made of mostly acoustic and string-driven songs hinted at on the last track ("She's Only Happy In The Sun" of Harper's previous album Diamonds on the Inside. The second disc ("Black" is made up of the more rock and upbeat material and touching on genres such as hard rock, funk and gospel.The album saw Harper playing the majority of the instruments on both discs; an approach that he had rarely used on his previous albums. However, the Innocent Criminals would appear on a few tracks whilst his later band, Relentless7, would appear together for the first time on "Serve Your Soul", the last track on the second disc.
The album became Harper's first US top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 200 album charts, entering and peaking at number seven on its release. To date, it is his highest album entry in that chart.
AllMusic Review by Marisa Brown:
After seven albums and 12 years in the game, it can stop being said that Ben Harper is hard to categorize, because at this point, the fact that he always incorporates diverse elements -- from folk to hard rock to funk -- into his music and makes something very much his own is a given. He's practically created a genre. So maybe that's why it's so surprising that Both Sides of the Gun, a two-disc album, has little of that very thing that makes him so unique. Instead, he chooses to show off the range of his musical interests, and ends up with something closer to a compilation than a Ben Harper album. The softer, acoustically based disc is full of pretty love songs and sweetly strummed guitars, and though Harper has done this before and kept his own style intact (in "Two Hands of a Prayer" and "When She Believes," for example), here he comes off sounding a bit boring. He hasn't forgotten himself completely: both "Never Leave Lonely Alone" and "Crying Won't Help You Now" are good songs, sounding strongly of him while also experimenting with other styles (Latin/French and gospel, respectively), but almost all the other tracks could have been pulled off any run-of-the-mill singer/songwriter album from the past ten years. Things improve slightly on the other, louder, disc ("Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating" is all electric blues, complete with a distorted slide guitar solo, and "Serve Your Soul" is the most Harper-ish of everything, blending folk guitar, pure rock, raw blues, and socially conscious lyrics into one eight-minute masterpiece), but there's still that sampler-record feeling there. "Engraved Invitation" and "Get It Like You Like It" are heavily influenced by the Rolling Stones, "Both Sides of the Gun" alludes to Curtis Mayfield and James Brown, and "Better Way" is practically a tribute (at least musically) to Prince's "7." Harper has always borrowed from other artists, but he's also always added enough of himself to make it not quite so...blatant. It's not that he isn't able to perform such a diverse selection: there are plenty of excellent cuts and most of the album is quite good. Harper is a fantastically talented musician, and he has really developed his voice since Diamonds on the Inside and is unafraid to do things with it, going from a croon to a scream and always sounding great. But why he's copying other people's styles instead of building on his own is both odd and disappointing, because he's always been able to experiment before while also preserving his individuality. If in Both Sides of the Gun Harper is trying to show his audience what a wide variety of music he can cover, he certainly accomplishes that. But if he's trying to create an album that is really about him, he doesn't quite deliver. Ben Harper is in there, don't worry, but he can be a little hard to find.
Tracklist:
Disc 1 - White:
01. Morning Yearning (4:09)
02. Waiting For You (3:33)
03. Picture In A Frame (4:37)
04. Never Leave Lonely Alone (2:51)
05. Sweet Nothing Serenade (2:45)
06. Reason To Mourn (4:30)
07. More Than Sorry (3:25)
08. Cryin' Won't Help You Now (2:34)
09. Happy Everafter In Your Eyes (2:24)
Disc 1 - Black:
01. Better Way (3:59)
02. Both Sides Of The Gun (2:49)
03. Engraved Invitation (2:56)
04. Black Rain (2:55)
05. Gather 'Round The Stone (3:11)
06. Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating (2:32)
07. Get It Like You Like It (3:25)
08. The Way You Found Me (2:53)
09. Serve Your Soul (8:19)
Personnel:
Ben Harper - Vocals, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, Weissenborn, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, piano, vibes,
Juan Nelson - Bass
Oliver Francis Charles - Drums
Leon Mobley - Percussion
Jason Yates - Keys
Matt Cory - Bass
Michael Ward - Guitar, bass
JP Plunier - Drums
Charlie Musselwhite - Backing vocals
David Lindley - Tambura
Greg Kurstin - Hammond B3
Marc Ford - Guitar
Alyssa Park, Joel Pargman, Patrick Rosalez, Brett Banducci, Timothy Loo - Strings
David Palmer - Keys
Danny Kalb - Guitar, sound engineer
Jan Ghazi - Electric guitar, backing vocals
Nick Sandro - Bass, backing vocals
Jason Mozersky - Guitar
Scott Thomas - Backing vocals
Jose Medeles - Drums
Jesse Ingulls - Bass
Jordan Richardson - Drums
William Gus Seyffert - Bass
Ellen Harper, Sue Chase, Michelle Griepentrog, Jennifer Ohrstrom, Natasha Cockrell - Backing vocals
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