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Review: With all the fawning reviews, I felt the need to be brutally honest. With the inclusion of family members singing on some of the songs, and references to his family, this CD comes off as incredibly self-congratulatory and self-indulgent. These songs don't just sound like they were recorded for children; they sound like they were recorded for HIS children.The songs themselves are covers, and KM does not improve on a single one. I have most of the original versions of these songs, including the great "Everybody By Yoself" from the Northern Exposure soundtrack, and I'd rather listen to any of those. KM may have a bluesy jazzy gruff sound, but he shouldn't choose songs that require a bigger range or a wider range of nuances than he is capable of (Big Yellow Taxi, for one). And if you want to hear the best and bluesiest version of "America the Beautiful"....Ray Charles is IT.
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