Shadows in the Air

Shadows in the Air

Track Listings

1. Out Into The Fields

2. 52nd Street

3. Heart Quake

4. Boston Ball Game 1967

5. This Anger's A Liar

6. Sunshine Of Your Love

7. Directions Home (for Tony Williams & Larry Young)

8. Milonga

9. Dancing On Air

10. Windowless Rooms

11. Dark Heart

12. Mr. Flesh

13. He The Richmond

14. White Room

15. Surge

Editorial Reviews
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His now-weathered visage may not be as recognizable as that of his old Cream mate Eric Clapton, but Jack Bruce's voice doesn't require much in the way of an introduction. The man with the pipes behind such '60s proto-metal touchstones as "White Room" and "Sunshine of Your Love" (both revisited here, with Clapton in tow, no less!) long ago left rock stardom behind, but he's still a respected bassist and vocalist who serious musicians love to accompany. Here, in addition to Clapton, he enlists the likes of Gary Moore, Vernon Reid, and Dr. John. Despite the two Cream classics and a third selection culled from his days in the short-lived '70s supergroup West, Bruce & Laing, the bulk of Shadows in the Air consists of new material cowritten and coproduced by Bruce and past collaborator Kip Hanrahan. This isn't the tossed-off stuff one has come to expect from rock stars on the comeback trail, as the likes of the anti-music-biz screed "52nd Street" attests ("Their teeth are made of sharpened gold / Though their smiles are polished white"). Stardom may be a distant memory for this erstwhile rock god, but, judging by this 15-song outing, serious music certainly isn't. --Steven Stolder

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Shadows in the Air

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