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Disc 1
| | Song Title |  |  | | 1. Fight Outta You |  | | | 2. In the Colors | | | | 3. Fool For a Lonesome Train | | | | 4. Needed You Tonight | | | | 5. Having Wings | | | | 6. Say You Will | | | | 7. Younger Than Today | | | | 8. Put It On Me | | | | 9. Heart Of Matters | | | | 10. Paris Sunrise #7 | | | | 11. Lifeline | | |
| | At the end of a nine month European tour, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals landed in a Paris recording studio and completed their new album, Lifeline, in just seven days. The result: a soulful masterpiece with beautifully direct lyrics, undeniable grooves and an effortless energy that recalls the best works of Otis Redding, Bill Withers and Beggars Banquet-era Rolling Stones. Yeah...it's that good.
It's no surprise that most bands today don't record albums live, straight to tape, in one room, no Pro Tools, no auto-tune. There are only a handful of modern artists that can pull it off. Since Ben & The Innocent Criminals were so musically connected after such a long tour, they entered the studio immediately. And on a sixteen track tape machine and one full week in the City of Lights, they successfully recorded and mixed an album that will sit alongside all of your old favorites...just like a classic record should.
Track Listings
1. Fight Outta You
2. In the Colors
3. Fool for a Lonesome Train
4. Needed You Tonight
5. Having Wings
6. Say You Will
7. Younger Than Today
8. Put It on Me
9. Heart of Matters
10. Paris Sunrise #7
11. Lifeline
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Ben Harper: Michael Ward (guitar); Jason Yates (keyboards); Juan Nelson (bass guitar); Oliver Charles (drums); Leon Mobley (percussion); Ben Harper. | | Additional personnel: Michelle Haynes, Rovleta Fraser (background vocals). | | After touring the European continent for nine months, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals booked a week in a studio in Paris and recorded the entirety of Harper's eighth album, LIFELINE. By the end of a lengthy tour, a good band is simultaneously tight and loose, able to easily navigate any twists their leader throws at them, and that quality is all over LIFELINE. Largely recorded live to tape with minimal overdubs, LIFELINE has the live, fresh sound of 1970s album rock classics like Jackson Browne's RUNNING ON EMPTY, as well as a pronounced R&B influence that has never been so prominent on Harper's previous albums. Highlights include the bluesy shuffle "Fight Outta You," the Rolling Stones-like rocker "Put It On Me," and the title track, a solo acoustic performance by Harper that's one of his most personal and affecting songs. The album is also available in a special deluxe edition that includes a bonus DVD. |
Producer: Ben Harper |
Engineer: Danny Kalb | | |
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Rolling Stone (p.87)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The performances sound confident and natural....Harper was born to make records like LIFELINE. He sings in a grainy tenor of surprising range."Spin (p.129)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Ben Harper eases into a more fluid, evenly paced groove on his eighth LP....Commanding..." Entertainment Weekly (p.79)
- "LIFELINE thankfully favors songs over jamming....Just add applause." -- Grade: B Q (Magazine)
(p.116)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "LIFELINE has a warm, languid intimacy that taps into the Otis Redding and Stevie Wonder records he grew up on." |
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