Bridge (Blues Traveler album)

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Bridge
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 8, 2001
Recorded2000
Genre Rock
Length53:47
Label A&M
Producer Matt Wallace
Blues Traveler chronology
Decisions of the Sky: A Traveler's Tale of Sun and Storm
(2000)
Bridge
(2001)
Truth Be Told
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic (56/100) [1]
Review scores
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Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Chicago Tribune (favorable) [3]
Entertainment Weekly B [4]
LA Weekly (unfavorable) [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Wall of Sound (65/100) [1]

Bridge is the sixth studio album by American jam band Blues Traveler, released in May 2001. The record is the band's first since the 1999 death of original bassist, Bobby Sheehan, and the first to include new members Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson on bass and keyboards, respectively.

Contents

The original title for the album was Bridge Out of Brooklyn.[ citation needed ]

Track listing

All tracks by Blues Traveler

  1. "Back in the Day" – 4:01
  2. "Girl Inside My Head" – 3:36
  3. "Rage" – 6:07
  4. "Just for Me" – 3:04
  5. "You Reach Me" – 4:27
  6. "All Hands" – 5:06
  7. "Pretty Angry (for J. Sheehan)" – 6:59
  8. "The Way" – 4:38
  9. "You Lost Me There" – 4:09
  10. "Sadly a Fiction" – 4:16
  11. "You're Burning Me" – 2:44
  12. "Decision of the Skies" – 4:27

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Critic reviews at Metacritic
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Chicago Tribune review
  4. Entertainment Weekly review
  5. "LA Weekly review". Archived from the original on June 3, 2001. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
  6. Rolling Stone review