ARTIST: The Nightwatchman
TITLE: One Man Revolution
LABEL: Epic Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 158kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 50m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-04-24
RIP DATE: 2007-04-18
Track List
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1. California's Dark 3:59
2. One Man Revolution 3:24
3. Let Freedom Ring 5:19
4. The Road I Must Travel 3:50
5. The Garden Of Gethsemane 4:02
6. House Gone Up In Flames 3:23
7. Flesh Shapes The Day 3:43
8. Battle Hymns 4:35
9. Maximum Firepower 4:19
10. Union Song 3:15
11. No One Left 3:32
12. The Dark Clouds Above 2:22
13. Until The End 4:23
Release Notes:
Tom Morello appears as The Nightwatchman on his stark new acoustic album One Man
Revolution. These 13 songs create a dark, urgent portrait of a world in turmoil.
Morello, the Grammy Award-winning guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and
Audioslave, pinpoints the sociopolitical struggles of the American leftist
underground in this series of self-penned originals. Brendan O'Brien (Peal Jam,
Bruce Springsteen, Incubus, Rage Against the Machine) produces `One Man
Revolution,' which is Tom's first time singing on record.
For more than a decade, Tom Morello used earsplitting riffs to make his point,
first with Rage Against the Machine, then with Audioslave. But on his solo debut
as the Nightwatchman, the man named one of Rolling Stone's 100 greatest
guitarists of all time tries a different approach. Taking cues from six-string
radicals such as Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash, Morello reinvents himself as a
singer-songwriter armed only with an acoustic guitar, gravelly baritone, and
renewed political fervor. The lyrics are unavoidably blunt, whether tackling the
plight of third world workers or being a member of two of the biggest rock bands
of the past two decades: "On the streets of Havana I got hugged and kissed/ At
the Playboy Mansion I wasn't on the list," he sings on the title track. The real
discovery is that he's capable of making the same old racket at just a fraction
of the volume. --Aidin Vaziri