Bob Dylan - Don't Shoot The Piano Player flac album

Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player is the sixth studio album by Elton John. Released in January, 1973 by DJM Records, it was John's sixth normal studio album release, and was his second straight No. 1 album in the US, yielding his first No. 1 single in both the US and Canada: "Crocodile Rock"

Visually, musically, and in every other way, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player is an engaging entertainment and a nice step forward in phase two of Elton John’s career, the phase that began with Honky Chateau. The essence of Elton’s personality, on record and in performance, has always been innocent exuberance, a quality intrinsic in most of the best rock ‘n’ roll of the Fifties and early Sixties. Elton’s only major problem after the success of his first album was finding the right direction for his talent, and until Honky the path chosen led up a blind alley.

Don’t Shoo. ould prove to be a bridge between his early work and his work as a superstar, as well as an essential album of his entire discography. Recorded at France’s Strawberry Studios (or, more formally, Château d’Herouville), the album is one of just three Elton John albums to feature the core band of John on pianos and keys, Davey Johnstone on guitars, Dee Murray on bass and Nigel Olsson on drums. The idea of the album as a film in this image is also a bit self-aware, as the title phrase – and John’s original playful plea – is a nod to the 1960 Francois Truffaut film Shoot the Piano Player. Some critics at the time were eager to label John’s instrumentation and vocal performances on the album derivative of earlier works, but John freely acknowledged that that was the point.

Bob Dylan is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on March 19, 1962 by Columbia Records. Produced by Columbia's legendary talent scout John H. Hammond, who signed Dylan to the label, the album features folk standards, plus two original compositions, "Talkin' New York" and "Song to Woody".

Another strong influence on Bob Dylan was not a musician primarily, although he has written music, but a comedian - Charlie Chaplin. After seeing many Chaplin films, Dylan found himself beginning to pick up some of the gestures of the classic tramp of silent films. Yet despite his comic flair, Bob Dylan has, for one so young, a curious preoccupation with songs about death. Although he is rarely inarticulate, Dylan can't explain the attraction of these songs, beyond the power and emotional wallop they give him, and which he passes on to his listeners. Ending this album is the surging power and tragedy of Blind Lemon Jefferson's blues - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean. The poignance and passion of this simple song reveals both the country blues tradition - and its newest voice, Bob Dylan - at their very finest.

Indeed, leaving aside his 1974 greatest hits collection, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player is still the Elton John album that has spent longer at N. in the UK than any other. As the follow-up to Honky Château, it became his second in a row to top the charts in America. With his almost indecently prolific productivity of the day, the new album was released just eight months after its predecessor, in January 1973, and contained two more songs that would soon join his catalogue of major hits.

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