release date: Sep. 30, 1991
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: Robbie Robertson, Gary Gersh, Stephen Hague
label: Geffen Records - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "Night Parade" - 5. "Day of Reckoning (Burnin' for You)" - 8. "Breakin' the Rules" - 10. "Sign of the Rainbow"
2nd solo album by Robbie Robertson following four years after his acclaimed debut.
Stylistically, the album is much more pop / rock-shaped than his '87 album, which paid more attention to americana. The track "Breakin the Rules" was made for the Wim Wenders '91 movie "Until the End of the World", and the song feature all three band members of the Scottish band The Blue Nile: Paul Buchanan, Paul Moore and Robert Bell, and Moore also plays keyboard on three other tracks.
The album sounds like the result of Robertson gathering much of his contemporary inspirational sources: The Blue Nile and their spacious art pop, and the production-sound and arrangements made by U2 on its most recent albums.
I have always felt that the album was too slick - the production and the structure of the songs echo too many familiar songs by others or sound as remakes of other songs by Robertson, thus making it a bit of a bland experience.
