Broken Promises

Rusty Truck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Terra
• ASIN: B0000C9JD3
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,749 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Everytime (Features Jakob Dylan)

2. Cold Ground (Features Sheryl Crow)

3. Civil Wars/Lucks Changing Lanes (Features Gillian Welch)

4. Broken Promises (features Lenny Kravitz)

5. A Thousand Kisses (Features Willie Nelson)

6. Candy (Features Rob Thomas & Marc Ribot)

7. Fool (Features Lenny Kravitz)

8. Malibu Canyon (features Jakob Dylan)

9. Tangled In the Fence (Features Gillian Welch)

10. Never Going Back (Features Jakob Dylan)

11. TKO (Features Meshell N'degeocello & Kenny Wayne Shepherd)

12. Prey (Features Lenny Kravitz)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

It’s often said that rock critics are frustrated musicians, but it seems the phenomena isn’t restricted to music scribes since Rolling Stone photographer Mark Seliger confessed to Jakob Dylan during a shoot for the august magazine that he wrote and sang alt country tunes during his off hours. The young Dylan offered up his own studio, starting Seliger on a year and a half long process, which ended with the release of Broken Promises, a very credible alt country album that recalls some of the best work of Pure Prairie League and early Poco--but with a darker cast. Seliger recruited a few more of his musical pals, like Gillian Welch, Willie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, and Meshell N' Degeocello to provide musical and moral support, but the disc is much more than the sum of its stellar parts. Seliger shows he has a strong lyrical sense, and can infuse even the most banal aside with a southern gothic twist, his voice; a mournful, fretful presence that conjures up the baleful winds of the West Texas plains where he was born. --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instant Classic, October 9, 2003

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Kimo (new york, ny USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broken Promises (Audio CD)

Mark and the Truck crew have created an incredibly smooth sounding record that you can't help but listen to again and again. Like Johnny at Folsom, like Willie anywhere , this is an instant classic and as a bonus you actually get Willie and Mark together on this album, as well as Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow, Rob Thomas , Jakob Dylan and more.....good stuff, pick it up.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected Masterpiece, June 21, 2005

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lonesomedave (PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broken Promises (Audio CD)

You're in the local Cd store....you see this in the "R" section and completely ignore it cause you never heard of Rusty Truck.

Big mistake....this is one great cd of country inflected rock, with great cameos and duets with Willie, Sheryl Crow, Jakob Dylan, Gillian Welch and a rather refreshing appearence by Lenny Kravitz....plus Rob Thomas, T- Bone Burnett and Kenny Wayne Shepherd all make contributions.

If you dismissed this cd, you'd be missing one of the better cd's of 2003 or any year for that matter. Once in your player you'll find this to be one of favorite cd's....it'll stay in your rotation...and friends will envy your good taste and your ability to find a tasty gem.

Everytime, Candy, Malibu Canyon, Civil Wars and TKO are favorites right now...but it changes because this is such a well crafted cd...I like the rockers one day, country tinged ones the next.... basically I like the whole dang thing.

I hope this isn't a one shot, either...and there's more to come from Mark Seliger. Oh, and its quite apparent that Don Imus can sell cd's...

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rusty, but not broken down, December 29, 2003

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Natster "thenatster" (Shrewsbury, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broken Promises (Audio CD)

Mark Seliger enlisted of some of rock and alt.country's best and brightest singer/songwriters to contribute to Broken Promises. There are some gems here, the shiniest being "Cold Ground," featuring Sheryl Crow. With Seliger, Crow manages brilliant harmony, evoking a Fleetwood Mac-ish sound. This album is one of my favorites of 2003.