KID ROCK/ROCK N ROLL JESUS

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• Date : 28/07/2008 00:00:00
• UPC : 75678997174
• Format : Audio CD
• Condition : New

Review
Kid Rock maintains a remarkable propensity for wearing his contradictions on his sleeve, and more than anything he's previously released, Rock 'n' Roll Jesus finds fuel in unresolved opposites. Is he a hard-core chauvinist ("Half Your Age") or a would-be gentleman ("When U Love Someone")? Is he a God-fearing everyman ("Blue Jeans and a Rosary") or a bohemian hero ("So Hott")? These questions are nothing new, even if the album at hand takes them to freshly delirious extremes. Ever since he first began shedding his rap/rock posture to be the next Ted Nugent, Kid Rock has constructed his public persona out of full-frontal ambivalence: race, class, sex, religion, money, whatever it takes. This album's bookends--the title song and "bonus" track, "Lowlife (Living the Highlife)"--demonstrate all this irreconcilable nonsense in no uncertain terms, but all his polar wobbling is at least stabilised by a firm commitment to southern-styled rock, tinged at times with gospel, blues, a lingering need to rap ("Sugar"), and a rare, soul-fed instrumental jambalaya ("New Orleans"). In the end, Kid Rock may be a remarkable self-promoter, but a musical Messiah he is not. --Jason Kirk

CD Description
'Rock 'n' Roll Jesus' is the follow-up to Kid Rock's self-titled 2003 effort. This release from the Detroit-born rapper/rocker is an album full of southern rock, hip-hop and honkytonk, created with the help of long-time backing band, Twisted Brown Trucker. Rock uses his lyrical style to take on issues from race relations to religion to rock 'n' roll excess. Singles include 'Too Hott'.