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Title: You can do much, much better.
Review: While certainly not among the worst rockstar side projects and in fact quite a refreshing change of pace from the endless navel gazing of REM, one still can't help but wonder what the point of this music is. Why not spring for a Stan Getz or John Coltrane or Ben Webster (or Hugo Montenegro for that matter)CD and hear the real thing? Why settle for the ersatz schmaltz which this CD delivers? This sounds pretty good after the basic 'alternative' band configuration of bass, drums, guitar and lead singer but then almost anything would. Rock stars parading their influences and good taste in music is a pretty empty exercise and empty is how I would describe this music.
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