| Across the Water | ||||
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| Released | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Blues, blues rock | |||
| Label | Tone-Cool | |||
| Producer | Jim Gaines | |||
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Across the Water is an album by the American musician Bernard Allison, released in 2000. [1] [2] Allison supported the album with a North American tour. [3] It was Allison's second album to be released in the United States. [4]
Recorded in Memphis and Minneapolis, the album was produced by Jim Gaines. [5] [6] [7] Allison felt it was necessary to add rock elements to his music, as blues was becoming less popular with younger Black audiences. [8] "I Just Came Back to Say Goodbye" is a cover of the Colin James song. [9] "Love Is Free" and "Change Your Way of Living" are covers of songs by Allison's father, Luther Allison. [10] "There's No Higher Love" employs a horn section. [11]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [12] |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram | [13] |
| Ottawa Citizen | [14] |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [15] |
| The Press of Atlantic City | [16] |
Exclaim! wrote that "Bernard's guitar burns and blisters harder and faster across much of this release and his tone is to die for." [9] Billboard praised "the bluesy Hendrix riffage of the title track." [17] The Hartford Courant said that Allison is "an inventive guitarist, sprinkling crunchy power chords, gritty solos and funky wah-wah lines all over the album." [11]
The Washington Post opined that, "at times, Across the Water sounds like an early-'70s Savoy Brown album with all the lumbering bombast and broad gestures such an analogy implies." [18] The Ottawa Citizen concluded that Allison "seems to be making a grab for the Top-10 ring of pop music success and, for better or worse, he's got too much pure ability and blues chops to make it work." [14] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram determined that "Allison's blues can get generic at times, but far more often he is convincing." [13]
AllMusic wrote that "rock, funk, and straight-ahead blues are all covered with ease." [12]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The River's Rising" | |
| 2. | "Meet Me Half Way" | |
| 3. | "I Just Came Back to Say Goodbye" | |
| 4. | "I Want to Get You Back" | |
| 5. | "Love Is Free" | |
| 6. | "Coming Back (Across the Water)" | |
| 7. | "Change Your Way of Living" | |
| 8. | "Feels Kinda Funny" | |
| 9. | "Work It Out" | |
| 10. | "There's No Higher Love" | |
| 11. | "I've Been Down" |
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