Soulful look back

Janis Joplin? I at least shrug at the mention of this name only once powerful. The Crime Scene Song "fist to fist" for beatings Commissioner Horst Schimanski heard first in me, "Monopoly" makes me a helpless Randfigur, and then I remember shuddering "1000 and One Nights", a song that still in the Keller bars this republic from sore throats drunk resounds, mostly just before Wolfgang Petry CD player and demanded patience highest me.

But location redeemed me from my growing panic and surprise already on first hearing: No Rumpel rock guitars, no stomping 4/4. The man has become mature, quiet and introverted. And without a doubt, look Lages facing backwards, in the very first title "50" he looks back on life. And the review continues until one thinks: Wait a minute, so old he's not, why not look to the future? Well, maybe it's just a short pause to gather new strength. Anyway, location gives the listener by some beautiful moments, especially because he does not rely only on his own compositions, but also sets out international songwriter addition to its own interpretations of well-chosen songs of Wolf Biermann or Manfred Maurenbrecher: "You 's friend in me "- in the original" You've Got A Friend In Me "by Randy Newman - one of the highlights. Emotional highlight the sad-beautiful "You know".

This album contains enough good moments to his position obviously unavoidable occasional textual - sorry, but as I see it - low-level flights ("Here you are - thank you - on Wiederseh'n") to forgive.

One can not but be: "You'll never walk alone" is today really only from the throats of 20,000 Pauli fans at the Millerntor ...

Still, be nice anyway.