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![]() JUST LIKE LOVE SFR 357.4036.2 ![]() Hybrid Stereo / Multichannel SACD ![]() ![]() Steve Strauss sings about longing. And reaching. And touching. And losing. And then doing it all over again ![]() Steve Strauss with his laid-back style of guitar playing (a quality further developed by fellow Stockfisch musicians like Chris Jones) is none other than - a poet. You can feel this when he sings of the golden era of youth spent in the shadow of the Argyle Bridge when war was only real in far-off countries. You can feel this when in Angel - in the beginning meant to be a comment on life in New York, which after September 11th reached an even deeper level of meaning - he sings of emptiness, loneliness, homelessness. ![]() In Just Like Love Strauss creates a mixture of traditional tunes and touchingly naive lyrics (Sunday Best) and critical views of society (as in his cover version of the Springsteen classic Youngstown). While Steve sounded a bit like a T.S. Eliot's poem on The Journey of the Magi, the title track Just Like Love and the cryptic The Dirt are more introspective musings.
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