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Edellinen oli sellaista mannaa, että pakkohan sitä vähän on tällaisesta innostua!
 
Onko joku jo hankkinut tämän? Mandoliinia, dobroa ja sen sorttista kunnon meininkiä löytyy klippien mukaan, mutta mitä By The Rivers Of Babylon reggae kuuluu Jorman levylle, ja onkohan vähän liikaa tuotantoa/orkestraatiota joissain biiseissä?
 
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http://www.amazon.com/Stars-My-Crow … music&qid=1174047095&sr=8-1
 
Amazon.com
Five years after Blue Country Heart, Stars in My Crown finds Jorma Kaukonen continuing and expanding on that Grammy-nominated work. It's again a relaxed setting, but the stylistic range has taken on a compelling diversity. Not generally a prolific writer, Kaukonen has written a welcome five of the disc's fourteen numbers this time out. They range from the perfect and prayerful opener "Overture: Heart Temporary," with its 12-piece string section holding his acoustic guitar and vocal aloft, to the lilting instrumental "A Life Well Lived." Kaukonen's choice of covers has left him room to make them his own, while also adding to the portrait of who he is as an artist, and how he got there. It would be right to expect a Rev. Gary Davis song on this album, and there are two of them, but it's his take on Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around" that amazes. It's an audacious choice for reinterpretation in which he both honors the original and finds a natural ease for his own voice. Throughout the entire set, the small and subtly varying ensemble plays with elegant style, peppered with occasional playful hijinks. --David Greenberger
 
'Jorma Kaukonen has quite possibly never been further removed from his Jefferson Airplane days than he is on "Stars in My Crown." This new disc is ruled by an acoustic consciousness in the service of mainly spiritual tunes, including a fine rendition of the Rev. Gary Davis' "There's a Table Sitting in Heaven" and "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown." Kaukonen also takes a pleasing plunge on the reggae gem "By the Rivers of Babylon." When not tracking spirituals, Kaukonen offers excellent covers of Joe Kroker's "Mighty Hard Pleasure" and Lightnin' Hopkins' "Come Back Baby." The project is also notable for an abundance of good pickin', courtesy of Kaukonen, Rob Ickes, Barry Mitterhoff, Sally Van Meter and Tim Stafford.' Philip Van Vleck
 
Jorma's Thoughs on the CD:
Songs seek me out when the time comes to record a project. It seems as if they know way before I do that at some point I am going to do another project. For example, Fur Peace Rag, A Life Well Lived and Living In The Moment started to call my name in the very beginning of this century. Rag started in the back lounge of a bus. Life came to me as I was working in Canada with my friend Michael Falzarano and Moment started as I picked my guitar in our living room at home and finished itself as I sat on the back porch one warm Spring night. In the Fall of 2003 Vanessa and I were having a heart to heart talk about relationships. She opened my eyes to some poignant realities, stopped in mid sentence and suddenly said with a smile, This is a good idea for a song! I ran to the upstairs of my new barn and wrote Heart Temporary. Over the years, I went down some different roads but spirituals always seemed to help light the way. The path of my life has taken many turns and the journey has been remarkable. Though todays world is a complicated place, I find myself living a simple life with my music. There is an unbroken thread that follows us from the beginning to the end and at this point in my life the thread circles me with love.