CD: GRACE - Really didn't know what to expect when I settled down to listen to this album as I had bought it on the strength of his recording of Cohen's HALLELUJAH which appeared on an Acoutsic CD.
Needless to say the album was vastly different to this one track.
On the first track his beautiful, beautiful voice just echoes into the track, very eerily. His voice has a sweet tone enhanced by it's quick tremble vibrato. It stretches itself over the lyrics in a very restless way.
I loved his version of LILAC WINE basically because it's the one track, along with Hallelujah, where you can really hear his voice.
In SO REAL a guitar manages to sound like a chain saw!

I don't really know how to react to the album other than it sounds like a nervous breakdown with brief moments of sanity particularly when his voice is at it's most operatic on CORPUS CHRISTI CAROL [how brave to put this part way through the track listing].

It's a curious, much older sounding album than 1994 and it has me totally hooked. I have read a little nore about the album on the web this afternoon and am intrigued by it all, not sure if I like it yet - I am going to give it a few more listens - but it is different and in this day of manufactured songs and sheep like copying, it matters just how different a 'sound' is.

Well I feel too young to hold on
And I'm much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I've done
LOVER, YOU SHOULD'VE COME OVER