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Title: Recommend My Love
Review: This is a great album. Not quite as good as The Shouting Stage in my view, but close. Joan should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her body of work compares favorably to any other artist over the past forty years, including Van Morrison and, yes, even Bob Dylan. She fuses folk, soul, blues and rock with overtones of reggae and calypso. Her incredible voice is the thing that stands out the most. Her lyrics, while good, have never set her apart. But her use of interesting rhythms and melodies and her light soulful voice, often repeating phrases until they lodge in the back of your cranium, makes her best songs listenable over and over. This album stays strong from start ("In Your Eyes") through finish ("Shape of A Boy"). After 15 years or so of listening, I still find myself drawn to it and tuning in for stretches at a time on my commute to and from work.
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