Stubborn Heart
$25.00 – $35.00
Praise for Stubborn Heart
“A stunning and timeless collection of songs,” Steve Edelstone, Billboard Magazine
“Our Lady of Light” (featuring Nick Cave) has an orchestral backdrop, an easy tempo and dreamy, Fifties-style backup vocals — it all sounds a bit similar to Cave’s music” – Kory Grow, Rolling Stone Magazine
“Stubborn Heart is a distinctly Cohenesque collection of lugubrious love songs, with eight Sloman originals and a cover of Dylan’s epic Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. Nick Cave duets on Our Lady of Light, and it is testament to the album’s quality that it doesn’t feel as if he is slumming it” – Michael Hann, The Guardian
“Stubborn Heart has a timeless quality that speaks to the soul like all the classics do, and considering Ratso’s renowned wordplay, it’s no surprise that it has some wonderful stories to tell along the way. It’s lyrical and evocative but grounded and human in the way those with a rich, storied life are especially able to capture. Ratso may be the [self-described] Jewish Susan Boyle, but he’s too coy about the depth and greatness of his first musical expression. ” – Nicholas Senior, New Noise
“Such an inspiration is Ratso. Imagine deciding you’re gonna make your first record at the age of 70. I salute you. What an incredible thing to do” – Mary Ann Hobbs BBC 6Music
“From vintage boho rock’s supporting cast, a new tower of song. Had one thought Leonard Cohen’s classic I’m Your Man was a one-off, Sloman’s debut album happily hits similar droll, mordant yet skittish spots” – Mat Snow, Mojo Magazine
“Very few rock ’n’ roll artists release their first album on the cusp of turning 70. Even fewer of this breed originally made their bones as a legendary author of multiple books that made the New York Times bestseller list. And only one of these near-septuagenarian rockers/writers is responsible for a record that’s a stone delight” – Gary Lippman, Magnet Magazine
“Larry “Ratso” Sloman is a NYC-based writer who has been tied to the hip with rock and pop since the ’60s, having collaborated with Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, John Cale and Leonard Cohen, and helped Anthony Kiedis and Howard Stern write their autobiographies. (Look for him in Scorsese’s upcoming Netflix documentary about Bob Dylan.) At 70 he’s adding another feather to his cap: singer-songwriter. All that time hanging around Dylan has certainly rubbed off, vocally.” – Brooklyn Vegan
“New York veteran, plus assorted friends, makes impressive debut. Stubborn Heart is very much in the vein of his late friend Leonard Cohen, as Sloman plays both the wounded romantic and the lusty libertine,” – Uncut
“Our Lady Of Light,” [is] a slow-burning duet with Nick Cave surrounded by organ, lush orchestration, and dreamy backing vocals” – Peter Heiman, Stereogum
“Stubborn Heart is at once deadly serious and engagingly humorous. Sloman’s persona is filled with a lifetime of outsized desire, somewhat tempered by perspective then framed in clever, sometimes profound lyrics” – Thom Jurek, AllMusic
“Sloman embodies the sagacious storytelling and voice of his Boomer generation peers with relish. Like a character from his own back pages, the bon vivant of cocktail and yacht lounge blues and candid romantic troubadour rock proves it’s never too late to add another proverbial string to, an already stretched, bow. This Stubborn Heart is one classy affair” – Dominick Valvona, Monolith Cocktail
“Blending a classic songwriting approach with a contemporary sophistication, [Ratso], who’s lived a lifetime in showbiz, has a great deal to sing about, bringing a star-studded cast along for the ride including the mighty Nick Cave and Warren Ellis” – Resident
“Stubborn Heart can probably sub-in for a new Leonard Cohen LP you won’t be getting this year” – Ancient Champion, Outside Left
Additional information
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