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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks
I'll admit, I've never checked out his solo stuff, what album(s) would you recommend as a starting point Mr. Tore?
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Great songs are peppered throughout his solo discography, so I don't think you can make a misstep. A popular starting point still is Sailing to Philadelphia from 2000 (much better than his solo debut which came before). The title track, a duet with James Taylor, is one of the most beautiful songs of his entire career.
I've long since tired of the album as a whole, including the popular What it is and Silvertown Blues, but Speedway at Nazareth is still a great song that might get an occasional play here.
Later on in his career, you'll find something great wherever you look. I'll post some songs that I personally find noteworthy, but I'll add that I generally prefer his folkier sounds and ballads rather than his bluesy stuff. So with that skewness in mind, I'll pick out some nuggets from some of the albums I appreciate (and I haven't heard them all).
His album Get Lucky has some great, great songs. The title song is fantastic, but also quite known/played, so here are a couple of other gems:
Kill to get Crimson is another great album that I like a lot. A couple of favorites from there:
From Shangri-La, Boom Like That (a song about businessman Ray Kroc who took control of McDonalds) is one of his biggest charting singles and a great song:
Privateering is a double album which is full of great songs like the pirate-y title track, Yon Two Crows, Redbud Tree, Go Love, Dream of the Drowned Submariner, Radio City Seranade. Presently, I think my softest spot is for the ballad Seattle, even if I doubt it charts highly on other people's favourites from this particular album.
Is this too much? I'm sorry.
Get Lucky, Kill to get Crimson and Privateering are all good second step albums after Sailing to Philadelphia. But I also haven't heard his latest two and there's a bunch of soundtrack albums that I haven't listened to. I have checked out his collabs with Chet Atkins and Emmylou Harris, but didn't find them as appealing as his solo studio albums.
Not to start a big argument, but I compare his solo career a bit to Morrissey in that it's got a lot of great stuff in it and more people should know about it.. Moz controversy aside
