Title: Bare Jr.'s Revenge
Review: Some have likened this "comeback" disc to Johnny Cash's later material on American Recordings, but there's a major difference:Rick Rubin, the producer of the American records "got" Johnny Cash. He understood his image, his past recordings and he played to Cash's strengths as the brooding, powerful stoic and added to his legacy.Bobby Bare Jr.--who produced this stuff--doesn't seem to understand his father at all. This simply does not sound like a Bobby Bare record. There's no connection to the Bare persona--the laconic, hell-raising raconteur-- developed over some three decades of recording. This sounds like someone was producing a Jack Jones record and at the last minute Jones pulled out and Bare filled in for him.It seems as if Bare Jr. is playing some sort of joke on his father and the listeners. Maybe he's getting back at him for that awful "Daddy, What If" recording from 30 years ago.
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