The Confessor (album)
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| Studio album by Joe Walsh | ||||
| Released | 21 May 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Studio | Goodnight LA Studios, Los Angeles, California, US | |||
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| Length | 36:15 | |||
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Warner Bros. - 9 25281-1 Full Moon - 252812 Atlantic (CD, only) |
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The Confessor is the seventh studio solo album by the American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh. The album was released in mid 1985, on the labels Warner Bros. Records, and Full Moon Records. The album was produced by Grammy Award winning producer and sound engineer Keith Olsen as well as Walsh himself. The album peaked at number 65 on the Billboard 200.
The cover art for the album features the painting Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes (Two Men Contemplating the Moon), a famous work by the German nineteenth-century romantic landscape artist Caspar David Friedrich, with a grainy photograph of Walsh in behind it.
The back cover is another painting by Friedrich called Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog).
The album includes a cover of Michael Stanley's "Rosewood Bitters," which got some FM airplay in the US, Walsh played slide guitar on the original recording which he originally wrote. On this version instead he plays an electric guitar.
"Slow Dancing" is a song written by Loz Netto for Walsh. Netto was the guitarist in the English band called "Moon" from the mid 1970s and the band "Sniff 'n' the Tears" from the late 1970s.
A variety of styles are explored on this album, including elements of blues, pop, and even Caribbean music. The title song is more in the vein of progressive rock.
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