Bridges revives his music vocation with new album
Updated: 2011-06-30 11:06
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2011-06-30 11:06:13.0Bridges revives his music career with new albumChina Daily,
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Add Jeff Bridges to the long account of Hollywood actors who fancy themselves rock stars.
He convincingly played a washed-up nation musician in Crazy Heart, winning an Oscar last year. In real life,
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He took the stage at the Troubadour night spot in Los Angeles on Tuesday to execute an hour-long set of folk-oriented material drawn mostly from his self-titled loosen,
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Indeed,
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He went on to collaborate with film composer Quincy Jones,
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While Hollywood beckoned with a breakthrough character in the 1971 membrane The Last Picture Show, Bridges found one outlet for his melodious genii in such films as 1989's The Fabulous Baker Boys. He too recorded an album, Be Here Soon, because one neutral name in 2001.
His corner in Crazy Heart as whiskey-swilling Bad Blake brought him a whole new class of musical recognition. The producer of that film's soundtrack,
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He emerged to be having fun on stage,
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Backed at a four-man orchestra, and alternating among an acoustic and electric guitar, Bridges played a merge of anthems from the new album and from the Crazy Heart soundtrack.
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