Bob Schneider - Burden Of Proof
Label.........................: Kirtland
Genre.........................: Rock
StoreDate.....................: Jun-11-2013
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 62.94 MB
Total Playing Time............: 36:48
Release Notes:
It s taken him some time, but, at 47 years old, iconic and revered
Austin singer-songwriter Bob Schneider is finally, begrudgingly,
hesitatingly ready to admit something: He s not a kid any more. The
writing s on the wall for the man the Austin Chronicle has repeatedly
called the hardest working man in Austin show business; he s getting
older and his tastes are starting to change. So it s little surprise to
hear, then, that when Schneider talks about Burden of Proof, his
whopping 12th solo release since 1998, adult is one of two words he
constantly finds himself using to describe it.
As a musician, you can act like a kid forever, he says. Look at The
Rolling Stones. Those guys are almost 70 andthey re still running around
like they re kids. But I think it looks silly for me to act like I m a
12-year-old. Because I m just not. So, yeah, this record has a more
adult feel.
The other word Schneider repeatedly references in describing Burden of
Proof? Strings. That much is immediately obvious within the first
seconds of the album, which features the soaring string work of Austin s
Tosca String Quartet throughout its 12 tracks, all of which are
intentionally cinematic in scope. But if that much implies that Burden
of Proof is a departure for Schneider, well, it should and it shouldn t.
Yet this is Schneider a man who once belted out songs with such titles
as Pussy Fever and Big Butts and BJs
during his days fronting his adored Austin funk-rock outfit The Scabs.
Grown-up or not, he remains a man who can t help himself. There s no
ignoring the double entendre going on in Burden of Proof s Wish The Wind
Would Blow Me
ballad, nor the sexual aggression behind the late-night booty
call-inspired Unpromised Land, the latter of which is the most rocking
cut on this release, which somehow retains Schneider s genre-hopping
ways almost in spite of itself.
Turns out, the more Schneider changes, the more he stays the same.
Tracklisting
01. Digging For Icicles 3:42
02. Wish The Wind Would BLow Me 3:05
03. Hop On The World 3:47
04. Swimming In The Sea 3:30
05. Unpromised Land 2:57
06. Best Day Ever 3:19
07. The Effect 1:57
08. Please Ask For Help 2:44
09. Weed Out The Weak 2:40
10. John Lennon 4:21
11. The White Moon 2:54
12. Tomorrow 1:52
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