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Master pop craftsman Jules Shear is also one of the genre's great humanists: His clear-eyed takes on love, regret, and failure can be tenderhearted or scathing, but are never less than compassionate. Allow Me, his first recording for Rounder Records, finds Shear back in solo mode after 1998's collection of duets, Between Us. Like that record, Allow Me is a collection of love songs, but the mood here is comparatively optimistic. Shear's melodies are as catchy and his lyrics as sharp as ever, especially on "Nothing Is New" and the opener, "Hard Enough," one of Shear's patented wake-up calls to a troubled friend; he's also in fine, relaxed vocal form. But Allow Me is not Shear's strongest overall effort: "Deep" and "Love With You" are unexceptional bar-band rockers, and the latter features flashy backing vocals that are singularly at odds with his down-to-earth persona. The album is also less cohesive than some of his other works, and some songs are obscured by clunky arrangements. Still, even lesser Jules Shear is a gift to fans of intelligent pop.
© Kristi Coulter /TiVo
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Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Cargo, Unknown, Other
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Leif Arntzen, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Edward Xiques, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Suzzy Roche, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rob Hyman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Peterson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Susan Cowsill, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Merendino, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Egan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger, Producer, Assistant Producer, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - STEUART SMITH, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Stewart Lerman, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Shear, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Stanley Szelest, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
Master pop craftsman Jules Shear is also one of the genre's great humanists: His clear-eyed takes on love, regret, and failure can be tenderhearted or scathing, but are never less than compassionate. Allow Me, his first recording for Rounder Records, finds Shear back in solo mode after 1998's collection of duets, Between Us. Like that record, Allow Me is a collection of love songs, but the mood here is comparatively optimistic. Shear's melodies are as catchy and his lyrics as sharp as ever, especially on "Nothing Is New" and the opener, "Hard Enough," one of Shear's patented wake-up calls to a troubled friend; he's also in fine, relaxed vocal form. But Allow Me is not Shear's strongest overall effort: "Deep" and "Love With You" are unexceptional bar-band rockers, and the latter features flashy backing vocals that are singularly at odds with his down-to-earth persona. The album is also less cohesive than some of his other works, and some songs are obscured by clunky arrangements. Still, even lesser Jules Shear is a gift to fans of intelligent pop.
© Kristi Coulter /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:16
- Main artists: Jules Shear
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Zoe Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 2000 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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