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Robbie Robertson / How to Become Clairvoyant (Deluxe Edition) 2011
Artist : Robbie Robertson
Title Of Album :  How to Become Clairvoyant
Year Of Release : 2011
Label : 429 Records
Catalogue Number :  B004MR9KFI
Genre : Rock
Format : Lossless EAC FLAC (Tracks + Cue + Log ) + Front Cover(No Scans)
Total Time : 01:28:00
Total Size : 500 mb

Tracklist

Disk 1
01. Straight Down the Line (with Robert Randolph)
02. When the Night Was Young
03. He Don't Live Here No More (with Eric Clapton)
04. The Right Mistake (with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood)
05. This Is Where I Get Off (with Eric Clapton)
06. Fear of Falling (with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood)
07. She's Not Mine (with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood)
08. Madame X (with Eric Clapton and Trent Reznor)
09. Axman (with Tom Morello)
10. Won't Be Back (with Eric Clapton)
11. How To Become Clairvoyant (with Robert Randolph)
12. Tango for Django

Disk 2 (Deluxe edition bonus)
1 The Right Mistake (demo)
2 He Don't Live Here No More (demo)
3 Fear of Falling (demo)
4 This Is Where I Get Off (demo)
5 Madame X (demo)
6 Houdini (demo)

Personnel: Robbie Robertson (vocals); Angela McCluskey (vocals); Eric Clapton (guitar, background vocals); Robert Randolph (pedal steel guitar); Martin Pradler (Wurlitzer piano); Ian Thomas (drums); Jimi Englund (percussion); Jason Boshoff, Matt Robertson, Eldad Guetta, Marius de Vries (programming); Daryl Johnson, Rocco Deluca (background vocals).

How to Become Clairvoyant is Robbie Robertson's first album since Contact from the Underworld of Redboy in 1998. The new album was co-produced by Robertson and Marius de Vries (Massive Attack, Björk, and Rufus Wainwright). The set was recorded over two years in London and Los Angeles. (There was a long break in the sessions when Robertson answered director Martin Scorsese's call to work on the music for the film Shutter Island.) Robertson wrote eight of the album's 12 tunes, and co-wrote three with Eric Clapton (who appears on both guitar and vocals) and one with de Vries. Other guests include Steve Winwood, Trent Reznor, Robert Randolph, Tom Morello, and Angela McLuskey. Robertson's backing band includes bassist Pino Palladino, drummer Ian Thomas, pianist Martin Pradler, and backing vocalists Angelyna Boyd, Daryl Johnson, and Rocco Deluca. The album's first single, "He Don't Live Here Anymore," a song about addiction, was released to radio on January 29. '' cd universe''

How to Become Clairvoyant is a collaboration with Eric Clapton. From the earliest stages of the creation of this music, Robbie and Eric worked closely, but without having much of a plan in place for where they were headed. As the years passed, those early ideas slowly grew into How To Become Clairvoyant. Robertson's commitment to create the soundtrack for the Martin Scorsese's movie Shutter Island slowed the proceedings down a little more, but that didn't take anything away from what this new album would become. In fact, the break from recording sessions may have helped Robbie out by allowing him to step away from his new songs and later return to them with a fresh outlook.

In these final sessions, Robertson enhanced things with the assistance of a few friends. Guitarists Robert Randolph and Tom Morello (of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave) were brought in, along with Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, vocalist Angela McClusky (formerly of Wild Colonials), Taylor Goldsmith (from the band Dawes), Rocco Deluca and others. These talented guests add a sonic dimension to the basic tracks created by Robertson, Clapton, Steve Winwood, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Ian Thomas.

Musically, How to Become Clairvoyant steps away from the Native American influence of Music for the Native Americans (Robertson's 1994 album with the Red Road Ensemble) and Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy. This new collection has more in common with his first two solo albums, 1987's Robbie Robertson and 1991's journey to New Orleans, Storyville.

The result is an album that tells a personal, at times even autobiographical, story set to the type of sonically rich soundtrack that we have come to expect from Robbie Robertson's solo work. But, for the first time, we get a glimpse inside the man that, for nearly the past forty-five years, has written some of popular music's most important songs.

I guess it's true that good things come to those who wait.