Trepidation (n.) <\/b>a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.<\/i><\/p>\n
Oh, you want it used in a sentence?<\/p>\n
After The Secret<\/i>, I had a great deal of trepidation<\/u> about Alan\u2019s new CD.<\/p>\n
Then, about the third time I listened to it, I started singing along. Suddenly birds began to sing, a shaft of light came down and graced me with a halo, and all was right with the world. The Cosmic Balance had been corrected. (Okay. I might be exaggerating a little.)<\/p>\n
Seriously, though, Alan seems to have picked up some pieces he was missing. I think that it\u2019s no mistake the album begins with a heartfelt paean to his late longtime partner and friend, Eric Woolfson (\u201cFare Thee Well\u201d); he seems to have finally assembled around him fellow musicians he\u2019s comfortable with, including songwriting partners who seem to have Eric\u2019s touch with lyrics. There are some odd ducks\u2014James Durbin, anyone? The metal guy from American Idol?\u2014but dammit, it works. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m not even going to discuss the production and engineering. The minute that\u2019s anything less than brilliant on a digitally-recorded Parsons album I\u2019m hanging up my speakers and riding over the Rainbow Bridge. The guest stars all work: David Pack of Ambrosia (who has had an on\/off collaborative relationship with Parsons since the late seventies), Joe Bonamassa (who seems to have finally provided Parsons with a sympatico lead guitarist for the first time since Ian Bairnson retired), Durbin, and Tommy Shaw of Styx (whose performance on \u201cUroboros\u201d is nothing short of stunning). Durbin handles \u201cSend \u2018Em My Love\u201d with ease, and songs like \u201cHalos\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Fade Now\u201d are very good. There\u2019s even a cover version of\u2014wait for it\u2014the Ronettes\u2019 \u201cBe My Baby,\u201d because Alan was influenced by Phil Spector (who he admits in the CD liners was a bad person, but also acknowledges Spector\u2019s huge influence on American pop music).<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s David Pack with \u201cI Won\u2019t Get Led Astray.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAstray\u201d is the best thing that Parsons has done since \u201cTake The Money And Run,\u201d off his Live CD. This is the Master at his best. The harmonies are amazing, Pack hasn\u2019t lost an iota of his range, and Bonamassa tears the doors off when appropriate.<\/p>\n
Thank the gods we can put \u2018trepidation\u2019 back on the spelling list where it belongs. \u201cFrom The New World\u201d proves that you can keep being new, no matter how old you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5965],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-46383","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-alan-parsons","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46383"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46383"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}