01. Born Again Savage
02. Camouflage Of Righteousness
03. Guns, Drugs, And
Gasoline
04. Face Of God
05. Saint Francis
06. Salvation
07. Organize
08. Flesheater
09. Lust For Enlightenment
10. Tongues Of Angels
Official web site: www.littlesteven.com
NOTES
Date: November 30, 1999
Label: PACHYDERM
Genre: ROCK
Category: Rock/Pop
REVIEWS CDNOW
Little Steven
Born Again Savage
(Renegade Nation)
Little Steve Van Zandt's first solo album in more than 10 years is hardly what
you might expect from the man who is best known, first, as the guitar player in Bruce
Springsteen's E Street Band and, second, as the actor who plays Silvio Dante in the
acclaimed HBO series, The Sopranos. Born Again Savage is a wildly ambitious
blend of spiritual searching; political analysis; heavy-metal graphics and bone-crunching
rock and roll. In one song St. Francis returns in a dream to weep over war and environmental
devastation. In another ("Flesheater") people who eat meat are denounced
for being willing links in a brutal food chain.
Steven communicates his urgent messages with music that is an even more urgent assault.
U2 bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Jason Bonham fill out Steven's power trio, and
together, they build a reverberating wall of overwhelming sound. As E Street fans
know, Steven sings in an endearing, Dylanesque bray that consists equally of yearning
and contempt. That's contempt for ruthless power brokers and yearning for a better
world through awareness and action -- the two passionately felt emotions that make
Born Again Savage such an exhilarating ride.
Anthony DeCurtis
The new CD by Little Steven, featuring Adam Clayton on Bass and Jason Bonham on Drums. The always adventurous Van Zandt, fronting a guitar-heavy power trio, takes a trip through the sacred and the profane on "Born Again Savage," his first solo album in a decade. - Associated Press Winning and Inspiring - L.A. Times Super Charged Rock Album - Newark Star-Ledger Fire-and-Brimstone Punk Abound in the Bone-Crunching Sound - Philadelphia Daily News
