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Lets face it folks, artists mature (like most of us). Their influences and skills evolve, as does the technology with which to best express them, but this just doesn't seem to stop weepy fans from longing for music stylistically identical to one small period of output in a performers long and colorful career.
Such is the case with Robbie Robertson.

This is not the same Robbie Robertson who toured Canada with the Hawks playing Memphis style R&B in 1959.
It's not the same Robbie Robertson who birthed electric folk with Dylan in a basement in Woodstock in 1967.
It's certainly not the same Robbiemore… Robertson who handily bested Clapton during a guitar duel in The Last Waltz in 1978, and it's not even the same Robbie Robertson who's first solo album on Geffen in 1987 showed us he was still after all these years an unrivaled American storyteller.

CLASSIC MASTERS is a complilation culled exclusively from two enigmatic 1990's albums. These display a mature Robbie Robertson rediscovering his Native American heritige while breaking his own musical boundries with the introduction of native chant, loops, spoken word recitation and hip-hop rhythms. The results are both startling and seductive. This CD presents choice cuts from those 90's releases spiced up with a few curious but superior alternate mixes. The tracks are in turn hypnotic and smokey-groove. Much in the same way Peter Gabriel integrated world music with british 80's pop so does Robbie Robertson successfully incorporate American Tribal music and contemporary African American rhythym into the familiar palette of Robertsonian storytelling.

Sure it would have been nice to include a few tracks from his precious solo efforts, (Broken Arrow and Testimony would have fit in nicely) but maybe Geffen wouldn't play ball. So, if you can pull yourself tearfully away from his impressive but dusty back catalog, CLASSIC MASTERS is an tantilizing introduction to what Robbie Robertson has become and perhaps some clues to where he is headed.

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Music > Albums

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CD

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Retail

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Title:

Robbie Robertson - Classic Masters (2002) Retail CD

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Front

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