Showing posts with label Don McLean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don McLean. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2013

Don McLean - Addicted To Black

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:30
Size: 99.6 MB
Styles: Rock, Adult contemporary
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:22] 1. Addicted to Black
[5:51] 2. Run Diana Run
[2:46] 3. Beside Myself
[3:23] 4. Mary Lost a Ring
[2:41] 5. Lovers Love the Spring
[3:44] 6. Promise To Remember
[4:08] 7. The Three of Us
[3:42] 8. Shadowland
[4:58] 9. I Was Always Young
[3:38] 10. This is America (Eisenhower)
[4:12] 11. In a Museum

Don McLean is one of America's most enduring singer-songwriters and is forever associated with his classic hits 'American Pie' and 'Vincent (Starry Starry Night)'. Since first hitting the charts in 1971, Don has amassed over 40 gold and platinum records world-wide and, in 2004, was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.

Addicted To Black is a new album of 11 original songs, excepting a co-write with one W. Shakespeare, and Don says this will be his last. On several tracks McLean adopts his morose side with lyrics about death and remembrance. "I don't know why I have this dark side to me," says McLean of the subject matter. "It's manifested itself in many of the songs that I've written. I'm not an unhappy person, I guess. Maybe I am. I don't know. But I do relate to people who have heartache." Appropriately, he even decorates the disc on the back cover with his first promotional photo, taken in 1964."I put it on there because that's the beginning and the song talks a lot about the end," says McLean. "I'm winding down. I'm doing my shows, and I don't know how many years I'll do that. And then I'll retire."

Don McLean (vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Pat Severs (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, dobro); Mike Severs (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, drums, keyboard programming); Hank Singer (fiddle); Mark Prentice (electric bass).

Addicted To Black

Friday, October 4, 2013

Don McLean - The Best Of Don McLean

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:51
Size: 98.1 MB
Styles: Soft rock
Year: 1988/2003
Art: Front

[8:32] 1. American Pie
[3:58] 2. Vincent
[4:15] 3. And I Love You So
[3:40] 4. Crying
[3:40] 5. Castles In The Air
[3:43] 6. Driedel
[3:08] 7. Winterwood
[2:23] 8. Everyday
[4:27] 9. Mountains O'mourne
[4:58] 10. Prime Time

Don McLean wrote a miracle with "American Pie": a mesmerizing study of rock open to multiple interpretations, yet simple and tuneful, erudite but gut-wrenching (even surpassing Dylan's most epic works). Of course, McLean couldn't realistically follow up the megasong, so he didn't even try. Still, "Vincent" stands as another masterpiece, while pre-"Pie" weeper "And I Love You So" remains as lovely a valentine as one could ask for. Documenting the coward's way out of a relationship, the poignant and bittersweet "Castles in the Air" leaves stuffy high society for the open country air (this is the Believers version of this wonder), attaining sublime levels of sentiment. Plus, McLean captures the beautiful torment of Roy Orbison's classic "Crying," which is just the icing on the aforementioned cake. Naturally, the flip side can't touch the front, but you need this collection. An annoying lack of annotation can't take away from some of the finest tracks ever committed to wax. Kids these days could learn a thing or two about angst as an art form from this misery maestro. ~Doug Stone

The Best Of Don McLean