"Some things got tradition/Some flash like new," Robbie Robertson sings in his bound but abnormally affecting bark in the aboriginal song here, "Straight Down the Line." It is an apt description of the appropriate coil in his plan - the aged and the immediate, from the Vietnam-era resonance of his Civil War parables for the Band to the apparitional atmospheres and slow-drag adulation songs on this album. How to Become Clairvoyant is Robertson's aboriginal almanac in added than a decade and a acknowledgment to the aggressive aural cinema and textural explorations of 1987's Robbie Robertson and 1991's Storyville.
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The Euro-dance beating of "He Don't Live Actuality No More" comes lathered in dive-bar grime; in "Axman," a cycle alarm of collapsed guitar heroes, Robertson gives abandoned time to extreme-metal cipher Tom Morello. But Robertson aswell goes way back, for the aboriginal time on a abandoned record, into his bedrock & cycle activity with the Band. "When the Night Was Young" combines Sixties celebrity and allure bullwork with memories of aback anchorage and juke-joint gigs, if his old accumulation was still the Hawks. It is applicable that Eric Clapton, who already aspired to accompany the Band, sings and plays on bisected of this record. His and Robertson's aged vocals and pointillist guitar exchanges in "The Right Mistake" and "Fear of Falling" (the closing with clear bolts of agency by Steve Winwood) are abstract roughage, the complete of two men with aggregate roots still affective forward.
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From The Archives Issue 1128: April 14, 2011
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