★★★★★
Appleseed David Bromberg is back--the real David Bromberg, that is. Try Me One More Time, Bromberg's 2007 comeback album after a 17-year recording gap, was largely a disappointment: nearly all covers, it felt as if this exceptional instrumentalist and multi-tasking stylist hadn't really grown in his absence. Perhaps it's because he's surrounded himself on this album with such high-profile guests as Linda Ronstadt, Levon Helm, Los Lobos and Dr...
- www.relix.com
2011-10-11
★★★★★
This former Bob Dylan sideman would like you to know he has other talented pals. Here he asks a bunch of them (Levon Helm, Dr. John, John Hiatt, Los Lobos) to pen songs or pick covers, then join him in the studio. As on David Bromberg's 2007 comeback, Try Me One More Time, his baritone sing-speak, class-clown humor and multi-instrumentalism (fiddle, guitar, dobro, mandolin) recall the best for his ripe-for-reissue Seventies LPs...
- www.rollingstone.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
Great session players easily cross genres, and guitarist David Bromberg is one of the great ones. For proof, look to his rootsy new concept album "Use Me, '' for which Bromberg also sings solid lead vocals backed by the big-name collaborators he approached to write and/or produce songs. John Hiatt planted the idea with Bromberg and gifted him with a humdinger of a song in "Ride on Out a Ways...
- www.boston.com
2011-07-25
★★★★★
After a certain number of decades, life becomes less about building up respect, connections and cred and more about cashing in what you've already earned, if you're so inclined. When David Bromberg decided it was time to once again climb out from behind his violin-store counter and back into the studio, he made a few phone calls. One went to John Hiatt. Another went to Levon Helm. Dr. John got a ring; so did Keb' Mo', Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Larry Campbell, Vince Gill and Tim O'Brien...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
David Bromberg is one of the most prolific and famous musicians that most people have never heard of. He spent most of the 1970's wandering the country with his musician friends, folks like Jerry Jeff Walker and George Harrison, leaving behind underexposed albums in his wake. Jam sessions from this era lead to his most famous collaboration, the Angel Band, which featured his wife Nancy Josephson on lead...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
The title of David Bromberg's new disc, Use Me serves two purposes. On the one hand, Bromberg does a hard drivin' freaky six-and-a-half-minute version of Bill Withers' classic soul track of that name. Bromberg annunciates the lyrics in his trademark droll, staccato and salty voice. He breaks down the wall between singer and audience through his intimate asides. He plays some amazing rhythm and blues guitar...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
When guitarist extraordinaire David Bromberg launched his first venture as an individual artist during the early '70s, such luminaries as Bob Dylan and George Harrison joined the former session man on his solo albums. Bromberg also earned a reputation during this period as a brilliant live musician whose energy-packed shows left the audience wowed. His music defied easy categorization...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
This is a reissue of Bromberg's 1974 album. Backing musicians include several members of The Grateful Dead as well as Andy Statman on mandolin and tenor sax. Some of Bromberg's strongest and best-loved material can be found here, including "The Holdup," "Danger Man," "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," "The New Lee Highway Blues," and Bob Dylan's "Wallflower."
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27