Jules Shear - Allow Me [2000][EAC,LOG,CUE,FLAC] torrent

Artist: Jules Shear
Release: Allow Me
Released: 2000
Label: Rounder / Zoe
Catalog#:01143-1010-2
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: USA
Style: folk, pop, americana, singer.songwriter

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01. Hard Enough [0:03:25.53]
02. The More That I'm Around You [0:03:28.46]
03. Love With You [0:03:06.60]
04. Nothing is New [0:04:32.73]
05. Hugging Her Guitar [0:03:37.06]
06. The Judge and Margaret Brady [0:02:34.42]
07. The Soul of a Child [0:04:36.93]
08. Deep [0:03:40.10]
09. Just Another Railroad Train [0:03:02.86]
10. May the Hard Road [0:03:30.66]
11. Too Soon Gone [0:03:49.20]



Master pop craftsman Jules Shear is also one of the genre's great humanists: His clear-eyed takes on love, regret, and failure can be tenderhearted or scathing, but are never less than compassionate. Allow Me, his first recording for Rounder Records, finds Shear back in solo mode after 1998's collection of duets, Between Us. Like that record, Allow Me is a collection of love songs, but the mood here is comparatively optimistic. Shear's melodies are as catchy and his lyrics as sharp as ever, especially on "Nothing Is New" and the opener, "Hard Enough," one of Shear's patented wake-up calls to a troubled friend; he's also in fine, relaxed vocal form. But Allow Me is not Shear's strongest overall effort: "Deep" and "Love With You" are unexceptional bar-band rockers, and the latter features flashy backing vocals that are singularly at odds with his down-to-earth persona. The album is also less cohesive than some of his other works, and some songs are obscured by clunky arrangements. Still, even lesser Jules Shear is a gift to fans of intelligent pop. .