Genre: Pop Rock
Label: Mercury
Size: 12"
Format: 33RPM,

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Elton John Tumbleweed Connection (50th Anniversary) LP (Green Vinyl)

Elton John

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MERLP48371
UPC:
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50th Anniversary Pressing on Limited Edition Green Vinyl!

On Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John and Bernie Taupin attempted their most ambitious record to date for the follow-up to their breakthrough album. A loose concept album about the American West, Tumbleweed Connection emphasized the pretensions that always lay beneath their songcraft. 50th-anniversary green LP.

Half of the songs don't follow conventional pop song structures; instead, they flow between verses and vague choruses. These experiments are remarkably successful, primarily because Taupin's lyrics are evocative and John's melodic sense is at its best. As should be expected for a concept album about the Wild West, the music draws from country and blues in equal measures, ranging from the bluesy choruses of 'Ballad of a Well-Known Gun' and the modified country of 'Country Comfort' to the gospel-inflected 'Burn Down the Mission' and the rolling, soulful 'Amoreena.' Paul Buckmaster manages to write dramatic but appropriate string arrangements that accentuate the cinematic feel of the album.
-Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.com

Features

  • 50th Anniversary Exclusive
  • Limited Edition
  • Green Vinyl
  • Remastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine
  • Vinyl Cutting by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, London
  • Gatefold Jacket
  • Made in Czech Republic

Selections

Side 1:

  1. Ballad of a Well-Known Gun
  2. Come Down in Time
  3. Country Comfort
  4. Son of Your Father
  5. My Father's Gun

Side 2:

  1. Where to Now St. Peter?
  2. Love Song
  3. Amoreena
  4. Talking Old Soldiers
  5. Burn Down the Mission

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