Track Listing

1. Hook It Boy
2. High Water Rising
3. Rhythm Of Love
4. I Need A Vice
5. Easy Like Rain
6. Three Women
7. Mama
8. Three Men
9. Already Got What You Need
10. Broken Trees
11. Rattlesnakin' Daddy
12. Play That Guitar Rag

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46872 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-06
• Number of discs: 1

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Opening with a blast of raunchy gut-bucket blues that sounds like something spat out of Tom Waits's Bone Machine, Rhythm of Love is a far more adventurous album than fans of Montreal-born rocker David Wilcox have come to expect. His first for the Stony Plain imprint, Rhythm of Love is also his most accomplished and engaging disc since his early-'80s heyday as one of the nation's top rock acts. Wilcox gets great assistance from a wide variety of guests, as well as from producer Colin Linden, Bruce Cockburn's regular collaborator and Wilcox's bandmate from his days with Canadian blues-rockers the Teddybears. On the swaggering title track, Wilcox makes a fine ruckus with Linden, former Junkhouse/Crash Vegas singer-guitarist Colin Cripps, and Big Wreck singer Ian Thornley, and the pretty "High Water Rising" features a lovely contribution by singer Sarah Harmer. Wilcox also finds good foils in drummer Jorn Andersen and bassist David Rose. But much of the credit for the strength of Rhythm of Love must go to Wilcox himself. Songs like the opening "Hook It Boy," "Three Men," and "I Need a Vice"--in which he admits, "Everything fun is bad for my heart"--benefit from both his sharp wit as a songwriter and his speed and flair as a guitarist. Wilcox applies himself with equal vigour to everything from the angry stomp of "Hook It Boy" to "Play that Guitar Rag," an acoustic country-blues ditty that is anything but a "slow drag." --Jason Anderson