List | D | Dave Stewart | 'Dave Stewart & The Spiritual Cowboys' CD 1990

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Soul Years	4:23
2.	King Of The Hypocrites	4:50
3.	Diamond Avenue	4:46
4.	This Little Town	4:23
5.	On Fire	4:32
6.	Heaven And Earth	5:05
7.	Love Shines	5:22
8.	Party Town	4:29
9.	Mr Reed	4:43
10.	Fashion Bomb	4:04
11.	Jack Talking	4:19
12.	Hey Johnny	5:20
13.	The Devil's Just Been Using You	5:44
14.	Spiritual Love	6:04
	Total	68:04

Comments:

Dave Stewart founded this band after his old band Eurythmics split up and Annie Lennox pursued a solo career. The Spiritual Cowboys released (to my knowledge) only two albums, of which this is the first and supposedly better.

The music style reminds me only a little bit of Eurythmics at times; specifically their more guitarey songs. Three or four of the songs are excellent slow ballad type songs with lovable lyrics, quite insightful (4, 6, 7, 9). Some other songs are a bit too much Leonard-Cohen-wannabe-ish, and not very good at that (5). Others are rather up-tempo rock-pop (2, 8, 10, 12), some catchy and some forgettable, and there's the obvious pop single 'Jack Talking' as well (supposedly about Jack Nicholson).

In all, a reasonably good pop album with songs better than most, if you skip the not-so-good tracks. It's nice to hear Dave's voice, which was quite uncommon in the days with vocalist Lennox.

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