Track Listing
1. Someone to Love
2. Car Phone
3. You Bowed Down
4. Suddenly Blue
5. Trees Are All Gone, The
6. King of the Hill
7. Without Your Love
8. Time Has Come, The
9. Your Love Is a Goldmine
10. If We Never Meet Again
| Details | | Playing Time: | 41 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Chris Hillman, Dave Stewart, David Crosby, Elvis Costello, Michael Penn, Tom Petty | | Producer: | David Cole, Roger McGuinn | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
McGuinn can trade off his influential work with the Byrds until he chooses to retire. He is a legendary figure and commands our respect. Finding a record deal for his newer songs took quite a while as he was without a contract for many years. This was a credible return, reminding us his distinctive sound was truly original. The chiming Rickenbacker is strongly featured, and on "Car Phone" he even teases with a spluttering burst of the phenomenal "Eight Miles High" guitar solo. Elsewhere he sings Elvis Costello ("You Bowed Down") and Jules Shear ("If We Never Meet Again"). For a man who had every right to be tired, this was an energetic return.
Editorial Reviews
Sound A- / Performance A
Audio Magazine (03/01/1991)
Performance Reminiscent / Recording Very good - ..It isn't easy for a rocker to age well, but McGuinn may have figured out how to do it.
Stereo Review (04/01/1991)
..what makes this album work isn't McGuinn's past so much as his presence--the way his voice wraps around the chorus to 'Suddenly Blue', or the shimmering guitar break in King Of The Hill'.
Musician (04/01/1991)
3 Stars - Good - ..a reminder of what has always been great about McGuinn.
Q (03/01/1991)
..pleasant, middle-aged folk rock that's meant to re-create the legend of rock's 'golden era'.. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (01/18/1991)
3.5 Stars - Very Good - ..McGuinn's twelve-string shimmers throughout Back From Rio like sunlight on the ocean...old fans will be happy to have a latter-day approximation of a Byrds album..
Rolling Stone (02/07/1991)
3 stars out of 5 -- The Petty co-write 'King Of The Hill' is a harmony-laden rumination on the hollowness of celebrity that reads like a detached overview of McGuinn's own past...
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