Lyrical Leanings
Copyright (c) 1994, Joe DeRouen
All rights reserved


NOW YOU ARE MY HOME
Cliff Eberhardt  
Shanachie Ent. Corp/Cachet Records Co.
1993


NOW YOU ARE MY HOME is Cliff Eberhardt's second CD, and an alltogether
good piece of work. It just isn't as good as it could have been.

When I first listened to the CD, I had high hopes for it. Eberhardt's a
great artist. MY FATHER'S SHOES (from his first album and LEGACY, a folk
singer/song writer compilation album) is one of my very favorite songs.
The songs on this disc are good, certainly. But they're not quite what
they could have been.

Call it proof of the sophomore slump if you will. The CD's certainly
worth a listen, and the first cut (EVER SINCE I LOST YOUR LOVE) is a
sure sign of what the man can do. A sorrowful ballad of lost love, it
opens the CD with a bang. Followed by a classy rendition of Smokey
Robinson's YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME, the CD really doesn't begin to
lose steam until halfway through. 

It isn't that NOW YOU ARE MY HOME is a bad album; it's that it could
have been so much better. Mr. Eberhardt has a bright future ahead of
him. With his talent at song writing and a voice and guitar to match,
his only limit is himself. 

My score, on a scale of one to ten: 7

