Robert Palmer - Drive (2003) U.S. Pressing
Robert Palmer - Drive (2003) U.S. Pressing
EAC Secure Rip | FLAC (Image + Cue + Log) - 239 MB | Complete Scans (Jpeg 600 dpi) - 187 MB | MP3 (CBR320 Kbps) - 83 MB
Blues, Rock | Compendia Music Group | 0-15095-4886-2 | 33:29 minutes | 5% WinRar Recovery | Hosted on: FilePost
EAC Secure Rip | FLAC (Image + Cue + Log) - 239 MB | Complete Scans (Jpeg 600 dpi) - 187 MB | MP3 (CBR320 Kbps) - 83 MB
Blues, Rock | Compendia Music Group | 0-15095-4886-2 | 33:29 minutes | 5% WinRar Recovery | Hosted on: FilePost
Drive is a 2003 album by British musician Robert Palmer, his fourteenth solo studio album, and his last album before his death. Although Drive was released in 2003, all work on the project was completed by November 2002. The release date had to be delayed due to the length of the recording. Compendia Records wanted to cut two additional songs from the project which Robert Palmer had written and Palmer wanted to keep the songs on the recording. Eventually Robert Palmer agreed with the record company in 2003 and allowed the two songs to be cut, accounting for its delayed release date. Drive was originally slated to be released in December 2002. Drive was critically hailed as the grittiest and most heartfelt album of his career. Initially approached by guitarist Carl Carlton to contribute to the 2001 Robert Johnson tribute album Hellhound on My Trail, for which Palmer recorded "Milk Cow's Calf Blues" with Carlton on guitars, Palmer was then invited by Faye Dunaway to provide the soundtrack to her 2001 directorial debut The Yellow Bird, set in Mississippi and New Orleans during the 1940s and 1950s. Palmer took both signs as a good omen, and the impetus for Drive was born. After more thoroughly researching this particular genre of music, Palmer assembled a list of fifty possible tracks, and then began the arduous task of whittling that list down to a manageable set of twelve. The selections from Drive can best be described as a loose collection of both standard and contemporary blues compositions (Robert Johnson, Little Willie John, Keb' Mo'), with a smattering of other genres, including folk (Nicolai Dunger) and calypso (Mighty Sparrow), prompting Palmer to call the end result "a gut-buckety swamp thing." The recording and mixing of Drive took place in both Logic Studios (Milan, Italy) and Palmer's home studio (Lugano, Switzerland), with his long-time, trusted engineer Pino "Pinaxa" Pischetola at the mixing board. Because of the satisfaction and enthusiasm having recording the initial twelve songs, Palmer decided to cut three more tracks ("29 Ways [To My Baby's Door]," "It Hurts Me Too," "Stupid Cupid"), this time at the Sphere in London, England, with Ben Georgiades engineering the sessions. The album peaked at #10 on the US Blues albums chart.
It's hard not to write with a bit of sentiment given Robert Palmer's recent death, but this album stands as a fine, if inadvertant, tribute to one of the great popular music artists of the past 40 years. More than anything, Palmer was one of modern music's best arrangers, a talent that is little recognized in the restrictive world of rock music. He put his inimitable stamp on whatever he touched, and never more distinctly than on Drive. He does rock, but it isn't a rock album. He does blues, but it isnt a blues album. Drive is Palmer mining his seemingly bottomless reservoir of joyfully idiosyncratic musical ideas. From his vocal phrasing to the way he refreshes old rhythms, Palmer excites the senses. It is apt that his youthful influences were the likes of Basie and Ellington, because, like them, he didn't succumb to the idiotic predictability that quickly afflicts almost all "rock stars," and especially those who had huge hits. Palmer was still making exciting music in his fourth decade in the rock business! Who else can that be said about? Only Ry Cooder comes to mind. Of course, neither has allowed himself to be confined within the suffocating boundary of rock.
Drive very much deserves a listen, and I cannot do justice to what you will hear. I will say that anyone who can not only equal but best Big Mama Thornton's version of Hound Dog has accomplished something special.
The U.S. release of Drive is missing some songs that are on the U.K. CD. It is worth a few extra dollars to buy the U.K. disc from Amazon UK.Reviewed by Nicolas S. Martin amazon.com
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 2 from 29. April 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 14. July 2012, 16:15
Robert Palmer / Drive
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TOC of the extracted CD
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EAC extraction logfile from 14. July 2012, 16:15
Robert Palmer / Drive
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GH60N Adapter: 0 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "artist=%albumartist%" -T "title=%title%" -T "album=%albumtitle%" -T "date=%year%" -T "genre=%genre%" -T
"tracknumber=%tracknr%" %source%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 2:26.68 | 0 | 11017
2 | 2:26.68 | 3:00.55 | 11018 | 24572
3 | 5:27.48 | 2:48.72 | 24573 | 37244
4 | 8:16.45 | 2:03.32 | 37245 | 46501
5 | 10:20.02 | 3:24.02 | 46502 | 61803
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7 | 16:06.08 | 3:58.26 | 72458 | 90333
8 | 20:04.34 | 3:58.01 | 90334 | 108184
9 | 24:02.35 | 1:59.05 | 108185 | 117114
10 | 26:01.40 | 2:02.27 | 117115 | 126291
11 | 28:03.67 | 3:07.70 | 126292 | 140386
12 | 31:11.62 | 2:17.21 | 140387 | 150682
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Filename C:\EAC\Robert Palmer - (2003) Drive\Robert Palmer - Drive.wav
Peak level 98.8 %
Extraction speed 1.6 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC B435C525
Copy CRC B435C525
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
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==== Log checksum 43F4667EEE9D46D89685145BEC0DD77A5AD067770EC29AAC2B06971AFBFCC014 ====
01. Mama Talk To Your Daughter (J. B. Lenoir, Alex Atkins) (2:27)
02. Why Get Up? (Bill Carter, Ruth Ellsworth) (3:01)
03. Who's Fooling Who? (Steve Barri, Michael Omartian, Harvey Price, Daniel Walsh) (2:49)
04. Am I Wrong? (Kevin R. Moore, aka Keb' Mo') (2:04)
05. TV Dinners (Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill) (3:24)
06. Lucky (Carl Carlton, Robert Palmer) (2:22)
07. Stella (Slinger Francisco) (3:59)
08. Dr Zhivago's Train (Nicolai Dunger) (3:58)
09. Ain't That Just Like A Woman (Claude Demetrius, Fleecy Moore) (1:59)
10. Hound Dog (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) (2:03)
11. Crazy Cajun Cake Walk Band (Jim Ford, Lolly Vegas, Pat Vegas) (3:08)
12. Need Your Love So Bad (Mertis John Jr.) (2:14)
Album Released on May 12, 2003
foobar2000 1.1.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.0
log date: 2012-07-19 00:03:12
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Analyzed: Robert Palmer / Drive
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Number of tracks: 12
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Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 948 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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log date: 2012-07-19 00:03:12
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Analyzed: Robert Palmer / Drive
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR5 -0.10 dB -6.48 dB 2:27 01-Mama Talk To Your Daughter
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.08 dB 3:01 02-Why Get Up?
DR7 -0.30 dB -9.23 dB 2:49 03-Who's Fooling Who?
DR10 -0.30 dB -12.22 dB 2:03 04-Am I Wrong?
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.23 dB 3:24 05-T.V. Dinners
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.86 dB 2:22 06-Lucky
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.54 dB 3:58 07-Stella
DR9 -0.10 dB -10.63 dB 3:58 08-Dr. Zhivago's Train
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DR6 -0.10 dB -7.64 dB 2:02 10-Hound Dog
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.17 dB 3:08 11-Crazy Cajun Cake Walk Band
DR8 -0.30 dB -9.56 dB 2:17 12-I Need Your Love So Bad
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 948 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Robert Palmer - Drive (2003) U.S. Pressing
Ripped and Scanned from the Stadium Studios Library July 2012
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