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Hope for the Hopeless | 
| Artist: Brett Dennen
Label: Dualtone Music Group
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 609
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.2
MPN: 1425
UPC: 803020142527
EAN: 0803020142527
ASIN: B001EN46AW
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | San Francisco | | • | Make You Crazy (feat. Femi Kuti) | | • | Heaven | | • | Closer to You | | • | So Far From Me | | • | When She's Gone | | • | World Keeps Turning | | • | Who Do You Think You Are? | | • | Follow Your Heart | | • | Ain't Gonna Lose You |
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Product Description
The follow-up to his Dualtone debut, "So Much More", positions him for stardom. Non-stop touring over the past three years with John Mayer, Colbie Calliat, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Sheryl Crow, and Ziggy Marley has led to nationwide talk about Brett's unique sound and inspiring message. Rolling Stone hailed him as one of 2008's Artists To Watch.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Another Great CD October 26, 2008
Mark W. Sweeny Jr. (Syracuse, N.Y. USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's not often I take the time to review a CD at all, especially one's I feel will be rated by thousands of people. So listen up. This guy's a great new artist. His last CD 06's "So Much More" was awesome with tons of great tunes and a great listen as a whole album and this CD Is just more of the same great melodies and tunes this guy plays. In this age of flooded singer/songwriters TAKE NOTICE OF THIS GUY.HE ROCKS
This CD Is like a Carnival. Brett give us the lyrics next time though.
 Amazing October 22, 2008
Julie Hockensmith
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Brett Dennen has made another amazing album! While this album still has his usual political/social tones, he also incorporates love and lost love into this album. I highly recommend this album to anyone who is looking for something new, something positive, or something refreshing.
Another round of Brett Dennen please.... October 27, 2008
JRay
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say that I did like his previous albums alittle bit better than his latest disk, BUT...it is a wonderful album. He seems to respect himself and others. He doesn't fill his albums with bad language, but a message of hope, and cares for the world and others. Keep it coming Brett we need more like this. If people get tired of wondeful optomistic caring lyrics and vocals then they can go turn on MTV.
Dennen delivers December 6, 2008
Shelly Horton (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why is it that some of us always feel like the new music can't surpass the old? I remember back when I first got So Much More thinking I would never like it as much as his debut album. Well it soon moved into rotation much more often than the first album until I eventually thought "I really like this one better." Of course hearing "Blessed" still makes me feel so happy and "Desert Sunrise" is still one of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard - but overall I do prefer the second album to the first.
So when I first played Hope for the Hopeless I was expectant and...well... 'hopeful'. I didn't love it first time around. I remember thinking there are a few good songs on here. But after listening to it a few more times I really started to like it and now I love it just as much as the others. I really think "San Francisco" may be my favorite followed closely by "Follow Your Heart." I really like ALL of them though. Seriously, every last one.
I love his lyrical phrasing and his unique voice and he still plays upon that in this album. Something I have really enjoyed about Dennen's music is watching him grow. The first album seemed to be almost a tribute to (maybe) a personal lover and being in love with life. The next one still talked of personal love but also took on an intense look at the world around him. This one seems to focus on a loss of love to some extent but sharing his worldview. That's just my take - and I was already a big fan.
 Brett Dennen - Hope for the Hopeless 6/10 October 22, 2008
Rudy Klapper (Los Angeles / Orlando)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brett Dennen has been compared with John Mayer countless times in the press, and with good reason; the former camp counselor is a youthful, acoustic guitar-toting troubadour with a soulful voice that sounds older than its years and a penchant for self-awareness and social-consciousness messages. And, of course, he recently opened for Mayer on a national tour. Hope for the Hopeless, Dennen's third proper album, won't do too much to dispel his Mayer-clone image, but it's a charming, light collection of folk-rock that doesn't try to act bigger than it is.
The record starts off on the fairly unexciting "San Francisco," your typical breakup song that is about as offensive as a Miley Cyrus tune. Single "Make You Crazy," featuring Femi Kuti, is marginally better, but the whole thing still comes off as just a paler Mayer imitation with a touch of (ew) Dave Matthews. Things start to look up with the following slow burner "Heaven," which, although weighed down by some preachy "love everyone" lyrics, is an effective ballad.
Dennen hits his stride near the midpoint of the album, where the arrangements start to get a little more adventurous and the vocals start to sound more inspired than insipid. "Wrong About Me" rides a honky-tonk piano line and Dennen's under-the-surface anger to an excellent chorus, while "So Far From Me"'s distant horn and gentle finger-picking create a palpable atmosphere of longing. And despite "When She's Gone" sappy lyrics, the pulsing guitar and double-bass beat make for a pretty guilty pop pleasure by song's end.
The rest of the album is fairly hit-or-miss, with workmanlike yet catchy guitar-pop tunes alternate with particularly grating sermons ("Who Do You Think You Are?" is a big offender). Hope for the Hopeless ends on the opposite note that it began on, promising that it won't leave its love on the unsurprising closing ballad "Ain't Gonna Lose You." Neither both profound and amazing nor clichéd and stale, it's a good encapsulation of what came before it. Dennen's latest is everything a fan would expect from the Mayer school of singer-songwriters, and while it's not going to be pointed at as a landmark in the 2008 music year, it does a solid job of what it sets out to do.
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