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When a singer/songwriter fights the big record label -- in this case Dreamworks -- because it doesn't understand the artist's vision, then the artist buys his way out of a contract so he can go somewhere that cares, it's admirable and has a "this must be good stuff" allure for sure. Give one listen to The Clarence Greenwood Recordings and you might have a guess at why Dreamworks "mishandled" Citizen Cope. Ponderous, unfinished, and pointless when it's at its worst, the album Citizen Cope -- singer/songwriter Clarence Greenwood's alias -- fought so hard for is filled with metaphors and characters that are murky. Nothing in the surrounding context suggests you should try to figure them out either. A lost soul who falls in love with a billboard is the subject of "Pablo Picasso," but there's no insight, no pathos, and no point. It's sad when anyone mistakes inanimate objects for someone who loves them, but Citizen Cope's use of the character is so detached it borders on exploitive. The timely "people wanna bomb us" number, "Bullet and a Target," is the album's centerpiece and single, but it's just another shock-value laundry list of depressing situations -- Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" for the Dave Matthews generation. It also has one of those horrible Parental Advisory sticker-dodging moments that kept rearing its ugly head in 2004. The "father" in the story -- another faceless character who doesn't get fleshed out -- just doesn't give a F word, which is removed, leaving an audible blank space that the lyric sheet claims should've been filled with the word "enough." Turns out the devil you don't know (Arista in this case) might be as bad as the devil you do know (Dreamworks) and that the music artists rescue from big business isn't always worth hearing.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Citizen Cope, Performer - Chris Petro, 2nd Engineer - Bob Power, Acoustic Bass - James Poysner, Piano - James Poysner, Keyboards - Bashiri Johnson, Percussion - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Neal H. Pogue, Mixing Engineer - Clarence Greenwood, Programmer - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Tabla - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - Jeremy Garrett, 2nd Engineer - John Ginty, Organ
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Citizen Cope, Performer - Chris Petro, 2nd Engineer - Rabeka Tuinei, 2nd Engineer - Manny Marroquin, Mixing Engineer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Preston Crump, Acoustic Bass - Clarence Greenwood, Programmer - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Piano - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - Jeremy Garrett, 2nd Engineer - John Ginty, Keyboards
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Dennis Chambers, Drums - Citizen Cope, Performer - Chris Petro, 2nd Engineer - Bashiri Johnson, Percussion - Rabeka Tuinei, 2nd Engineer - Manny Marroquin, Mixing Engineer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Preston Crump, Acoustic Bass - Jeremy Garrett, 2nd Engineer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Piano - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Programmer - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - John Ginty, Synthesizer - John Ginty, Keyboards
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jim Gaines, Recording Engineer - Citizen Cope featuring Carlos Santana, Performer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Paul Edwards, Drums - John Moraski, 2nd Engineer - Carlos Santana, Guitar - Michael Neal, Acoustic Bass - Michael Neal, Recording Engineer - Michael Neal, Mixing Engineer - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Synthesizer - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Programmer - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal
(P) 2003 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Acoustic Bass - Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Producer - Brady Blade, Drums - Steef van de Gevel, 2nd Engineer - Mike Tocci, Mixing Engineer - Mike Tocci, Recording Engineer - John Ginty, Organ - John Ginty, Keyboards - Citizen Cope, Performer - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar
(P) 2002 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Citizen Cope, Performer - Chris Petro, 2nd Engineer - Kurt Nepogoda, 2nd Engineer - Michael Neal, Programmer - Michael Neal, Recording Engineer - Michael Neal, Acoustic Bass - Bashiri Johnson, Percussion - Paul Edwards, Drums - Steef van de Gevel, Mixing Engineer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Programmer - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - Jeremy Garrett, 2nd Engineer - John Ginty, Organ
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jonathan Adler, Recording Engineer - Rabeka Tuinei, 2nd Engineer - Keith Robinson, Percussion - Manny Marroquin, Mixing Engineer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Jason Yates, Organ - Jason Yates, Piano - Citizen Cope, Performer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Programmer - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Synthesizer - Clarence Greenwood, Piano - Clarence Greenwood, Composer
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Citizen Cope, Performer - Kurt Nepogoda, 2nd Engineer - Shawn Pelton, Drums - Bashiri Johnson, Percussion - Rabeka Tuinei, 2nd Engineer - Manny Marroquin, Mixing Engineer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Preston Crump, Acoustic Bass - John Ginty, Piano - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Aaron Borroughs, Percussion - Paul Edwards, Drums - John Moraski, 2nd Engineer - Michael Neal, Acoustic Bass - Michael Neal, Recording Engineer - Daniel Parker, Piano - Daniel Parker, Keyboards - Daniel Parker, Percussion - Citizen Cope, Performer - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Percussion - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Citizen Cope, Performer - Chris Petro, 2nd Engineer - Kurt Nepogoda, 2nd Engineer - Shawn Pelton, Drums - Bashiri Johnson, Percussion - Steef van de Gevel, Mixing Engineer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Preston Crump, Acoustic Bass - Jeremy Garrett, 2nd Engineer - Clarence Greenwood, Guitar - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Composer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Vocal - John Ginty, Synthesizer - John Ginty, Keyboards - John Ginty, Organ
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Keith Robinson, Percussion - Steef van de Gevel, Mixing Engineer - Steef van de Gevel, Recording Engineer - Paul Edwards, Percussion - Michael Neal, Recording Engineer - Citizen Cope, Performer - Clarence Greenwood, Programmer - Clarence Greenwood, Lyricist - Clarence Greenwood, Producer - Clarence Greenwood, Keyboards - Clarence Greenwood, Composer
(P) 2004 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Albumbeschreibung
When a singer/songwriter fights the big record label -- in this case Dreamworks -- because it doesn't understand the artist's vision, then the artist buys his way out of a contract so he can go somewhere that cares, it's admirable and has a "this must be good stuff" allure for sure. Give one listen to The Clarence Greenwood Recordings and you might have a guess at why Dreamworks "mishandled" Citizen Cope. Ponderous, unfinished, and pointless when it's at its worst, the album Citizen Cope -- singer/songwriter Clarence Greenwood's alias -- fought so hard for is filled with metaphors and characters that are murky. Nothing in the surrounding context suggests you should try to figure them out either. A lost soul who falls in love with a billboard is the subject of "Pablo Picasso," but there's no insight, no pathos, and no point. It's sad when anyone mistakes inanimate objects for someone who loves them, but Citizen Cope's use of the character is so detached it borders on exploitive. The timely "people wanna bomb us" number, "Bullet and a Target," is the album's centerpiece and single, but it's just another shock-value laundry list of depressing situations -- Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" for the Dave Matthews generation. It also has one of those horrible Parental Advisory sticker-dodging moments that kept rearing its ugly head in 2004. The "father" in the story -- another faceless character who doesn't get fleshed out -- just doesn't give a F word, which is removed, leaving an audible blank space that the lyric sheet claims should've been filled with the word "enough." Turns out the devil you don't know (Arista in this case) might be as bad as the devil you do know (Dreamworks) and that the music artists rescue from big business isn't always worth hearing.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:47:14
- Main artists: Citizen Cope
- Composer: Clarence Greenwood
- Label: RCA Records Label
- Genre: Pop/Rock
(P) 2004 Arista Records, Inc.
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