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> Login to your account > RegisterBAP KENNEDY The Big Picture
From page 83 of Classic Rock Magazine April 2005
Cover of April 2005 issue.
Loose
Country-style confessional.
Former Energy Orchard mainman
Kennedy
recorded this album in Van Morrison’s Somerset studios, helped by pedal steel maestro BJ Cole, a spoken-word reading from Neal Cassady’s widow Carolyn, and a raucous vocal blast of Shane MacGowan in a song about alcohol.
The bright country rock of opener Rock And Roll Heaven is misleading; the material is generally low-key, laced with lap steel, piano, whistle, accordion, mandolin, strings and other accoutrements of Irish and American country.
Through Too Old For Fairly Tales and the lushly melodic Milky Way (co-written with Morrison), Kennedy surveys his past problems and disappointments, although the poppy soul of The Sweet Smell Of Success confides a grudging optimism in there somewhere.
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