JOE HENRY : FUSE

1. Monkey
2. Angels
3. Fuse
4. Skin and Teeth
5. Eat
6. Want Too Much
7. Curt Flood
8. Like She Was a Hammer
9. Great Lake
10. Beautiful Hat
11. We'll Meet Again

Label : Mammoth

Time : 46:44

Release Year : 1999

Review (AllMusic) : Henry has often made stylistic departures, so Fuse shouldn't be all that shocking. Yet, "Fat" sounds freaky till the beats soak in; the faux soul of "Want Too Much" is cloying. But ultimately, the new groove-a-delic Henry knows how to work the sound as he mixes and matches old and new, as on the Dylan-y bits with a "millennial" backing track (Daniel Lanois and T-Bone Burnett step in to mix); the subtle, catchy chorus in the opener "Monkey"; the laid-back and fuzzy "Angels"; and the fantastically evocative and poetic mysticism in the title song. There's upbeat melodicism in (I love you with my) "Skin and Teeth." But why that George Benson-like guitar solo during "Curt Flood"?