The Afghan Whigs – Black Love {20th Anniversary} (1996/2016) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Afghan Whigs – Black Love {20th Anniversary} (1996/2016) 
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:49 minutes | 2,95 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front Cover |  © Elektra Entertainment
Recorded: August-September 1995, Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee

The Afghan Whigs hit a high-water mark with 1993’s Gentlemen, an album that upped their game musically and plumbed the depth of Greg Dulli’s self-loathing with its tales of a ladies’ man whose attitude toward women (and himself) borders on the malignant. It was the band’s finest and most most ambitious work, and the band was faced with the challenge of trying to top it. The Afghan Whigs’ follow-up, 1996’s Black Love, ultimately missed the mark, though not for a lack of trying. The performances were every bit as strong as those on Gentlemen, as Rick McCollum’s mix of hard rock riffing and wailing slide guitar grew even stronger and the rhythm section laid down a beat that hit hard but retained a bit of their more graceful R&B influences. And vintage soul and funk were a significantly bigger part of the band’s formula this time out, with the keyboards on “Bulletproof,” the strings and percussion on “Blame, Etc.,” and the hip-hop-influenced percussion on “Going to Town” serving as key signifiers. While the band was in great form on Black Love, Greg Dulli’s songwriting wasn’t as impressive; Black Love lacks the thematic unity and power of Gentlemen, the melodies just aren’t as compelling, and while songs like “My Enemy,” “Honky’s Ladder,” and “Night by Candlelight” are striking and well crafted, their strength points to the fact many of the other songs don’t quite click. And as a lyricist, here Dulli was reworking the themes he’d explored in depth on Gentlemen and Congregation, and by this time he’d just about run out of juice. The Afghan Whigs were just too good a band to make an album that wasn’t worth hearing, and the musicians blaze hard on Black Love, but the closer one scrutinizes the work, the more this record feels like a misstep after the excellence of Gentlemen and Congregation.

Tracklist:
1 Crime Scene Part One 05:59
2 My Enemy 03:11
3 Double Day 04:39
4 Blame, Etc. 04:12
5 Step Into The Light 03:40
6 Going To Town 03:17
7 Honky’s Ladder 04:16
8 Night By Candlelight 03:41
9 Bulletproof 06:37
10 Summer’s Kiss 03:55
11 Faded 08:26

Demos
12 Go To Town (Acoustic Version) 02:49
13 Leaving Town (Mix 1.0) 01:37
14 Faded (Demo) 06:00
15 Regret 04:01
16 Crime Scene Part II (Mix 1.1 with Scratch Vocals) 03:21
17 Mick Taylor Jam 04:45
18 Wynton Kelly Jam 02:05
19 I Often Think of You 02:15
20 Staring Across The Water 02:54

Personnel:
Greg Dulli – lead vocals & guitars (1-11), drums (5), machine (6), percussion (7,8), timpani (8), sleigh bells (11)
Rick McCollum – guitars (1-4, 6-11), pedal steel (5), hammered dulcimer (8)
John Curley – bass (1-7, 9-11), Arp (1,4), guitar (3), vocals (4)
Paul Buchignani – drums (1-4, 6,7, 9-11), percussion (4,7,9), congas (4)
Additional:
Harold Chichester – organ (1,4,9,11), clavinet (4,6), Fender Rhodes (5), piano (9,11), vocals (11)
Doug Falsetti – percussion (1), vocals (3,4,7,9,11)
Shawn Smith – vocals (6,8)
Jeffrey Reed – effects (1)
Barbara Hunter – cellos (4,6,8,11)
Jeff Powell – vocals (4,9)

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