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Cat Stevens - Roadsinger  (2009) KompletlyWyred DHZ Inc Release


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      Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)
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Artist...............: Yusuf Islam
Album................: Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)
Genre................: Folk
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2009
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.98 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........: 

Ripped by............: KompletlyWyred.com DHZ Inc on 16/06/2009
Posted by............: KompletlyWyred.com DHZ Inc on 16/06/2009
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Included.............: NFO, PLS
Covers...............: Front Back CD 

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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:04:23) Yusuf Islam - Welcome Home
   2. (00:02:32) Yusuf Islam - Thinking 'Bout You
   3. (00:03:10) Yusuf Islam - Everytime I Dream
   4. (00:03:27) Yusuf Islam - The Rain
   5. (00:02:24) Yusuf Islam - World O' Darkness
   6. (00:03:25) Yusuf Islam - Be What You Must
   7. (00:02:03) Yusuf Islam - This Glass World
   8. (00:04:10) Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
   9. (00:02:38) Yusuf Islam - All Kinds Of Roses
  10. (00:01:57) Yusuf Islam - Dream On (Until...)
  11. (00:01:29) Yusuf Islam - Shamsia

Playing Time.........: 00:31:38
Total Size...........: 72.43 MB

NFO generated on.....: 16/06/2009 15:31:17


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“Time rolls on” Yusuf Islam philosophises gently on opening track ‘Welcome 
Home’…But what kind of welcome can the previously-reclusive ‘Bitterblue’ 
inspirator expect in 2009? 

The road has been a slow-evolving one for Islam (aka sixties troubadour Cat 
Stevens), and time has indeed rolled on past the seventies folk murmours of 
classics such as ‘Moonshadow’ and ‘The Wind’. Yet his fans have never 
forgotten, despite the name-changes and prolonged periods of silence when 
even Cat himself refused to sing. 

When Stevens penned his 1970 cult-classic Mona Bone Jakon, who could’ve 
predicted that the man who conceived ‘Peace Train’ could provoke the wrath 
of post-9/11 paranoia when the converted-Muslim travelled to the US to 
record with Dolly Parton in 2004. With this in mind, it is apt that fragile 
apprehension and timely lessons learnt swathe Yusuf’s latest musical 
contribution Roadsinger and give the material a humble depth that poeticises 
a life lived. 

If anything, opener ‘Welcome Home’ could almost be the concluding book-end 
to 1970’s ‘On The Road To Find Out’ from 1970’s Tea For The Tillerman, or 
even the ammendement to ‘I Might Die Tonight’. Yusuf may be “at the end of 
my days”, but he still has a story to tell and manages to weave each chapter 
endearingly in that familiar “Cat style”. It’s a timely return that is sure to tickle 
his loyal followers. 

Sure, there is nothing new or shapeshifting here - the piano intro on ‘Be What 
You Must’ trickles identically like 1972’s Catch Bull At Four’s fine opener 
‘Sitting’, and the mournful string soundscape on ‘The Rain’ could well find itself 
alongside 1970’s plucked-oddessy ‘Lilywhite’ – but familiarity seems besides 
the point when it comes to Yusuf Islam making the music that shapes his own 
life story. 

As heartwarming as it is heartfelt, this is one roadsinger who still has 
something to say. Welcome home, indeed…
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Comments

I am totally baffled to see such a nice man turning into something weird, converted to fanatism ... I mean converting oneself into Islam is not the problem but when you go as far as to support a fatwa issued upon freedom of expression, man that's when you start asking questions ... I'd like to have a taste of my own on this album though, 'cause I liked Cat Stevens a lot
Dear sir, I don't know if Yusuf Islam really supports fatwa or not so I can not place a judgement on him, but as a Muslim I would like to clarify one thing, it is totally forbidden in Islam to give fatwa unless you are under a totally Islamic states, under Islamic rules, governed by a Righteous and just ruler and judges, respecting every consistence of the deed. You can read about Omar Ibn Khatab (2nd kalif) and Omar Ibn Abdel Aziz (called the 5th calif). God is just, Islam too a lot of fatwas in this word has nothing to do with this peaceful religion but is the doing of tribe, or cultural, or political reasons or sometimes ignorance.

I wish all humanity the best on earth Muslims and none Muslims. But when it comes to the after life only god has the power to judge. Till then my dear fellow humans be well.
salam alaykoum
@drromeo911
as a muslim, I second your words bro