LUKA BLOOM : TURF

  1. Cold Comfort
  2. True Blue
  3. Diamond Mountain
  4. Right Here, Right Now
  5. Sunny Sailor Boy
  6. Black Is The Colour
  7. To Begin To
  8. Freedom Song
  9. Holding Back The River
  10. Background Noise
  11. The Fertile Rock
  12. I Did Time
  13. Sanctuary

Label : Reprise Records

Release Date : June 14, 1994

Length : 55:09

Review (AllMusic) : A portrait of the Irishman as an American neo-folkie. Having experimented with extra instrumentation on his first two albums, Luka Bloom made a man-with-guitar record his third time out, the better to emphasize his songs, which combined a strong folk traditionalism (one was called "Black Is The Colour [of my true love's hair]," another described an encounter with a mermaid) with an Amer-Irish social concern ("Freedom Song" mixed the stories of political activists from each country, "Background Noise" was a tale of violence applicable anywhere, even if it referred to the Irish Troubles). All of this made for a more focused record than Bloom's second album, although his debut remained his most satisfying effort.