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Steve Strauss Just Like Love Hybrid Multi-Channel & Stereo SACD |
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TAS Audiophile Demo Disc!
With “Powderhouse Road“, Steve Strauss proved himself to be a singer/songwriter of remarkable depth of feeling and sensitivity. This is also true of Just Like Love. The songs of Steve Strauss are, once again, not exactly
easy to approach. Maybe some elements of his art can be attributed to his job as
a social worker in Vestal, NY. Bitter-sweet melancholy, but also a trace of
cynicism gets hold of the listener at the same time.
Steve Strauss sings "about longing. And reaching. And touching. And losing. And
then doing it all over again..."
Steve Strauss with his laid-back style of guitar playing (a quality further
developed by fellow Stockfisch musicians like Chris Jones) is none other than –
a poet. You can feel this when he sings of the golden era of youth spent in the
shadow of the Argyle Bridge when war was only real “in far-off countries”. You
can feel this when in “Angel”– in the beginning meant to be a comment on life in
New York, which after September 11th reached an even deeper level of meaning –
he sings of emptiness, loneliness, homelessness.
In Just Like Love Strauss creates a mixture of traditional tunes and touchingly
naive lyrics (“Sunday Best”) and critical views of society (as in his cover
version of the Springsteen classic “Youngstown”). While even in “Jerusalem”
(“Powderhouse Road”) he sounded a bit like T.S. Eliot’s poem "The Journey of the
Magi”, the title track “Just Like Love” and the cryptic “The Dirt” are
introspective musings, and Steve’s play reaches a dreamlike intensity.
This Hybrid-SACD includes a 16bit hybrid layer and can therefore be played on
any CD-Player! SACD Surround sound requires multi-channel SACD player and
compatible surround sound system for playback.
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Multi-Channel SACD Layer
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
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1. Just Like Love
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2. Angel
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3. Youngstown
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4. Old Crow
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5. Dead Man's Handle
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6. Jennie Mae
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7. Brother Mule
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8. Sunday Best
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9. The Dirt
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10. Lord Franklin
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11. Closer
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12. The Dog and the Dancing Girl
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13. A Western
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Total playing time, 64:33
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