Jeff Bridges
As the latest step in his ongoing Dude-ification, Jeff Bridges’ self-titled second record is as inevitable as it is superfluous. Once merely a respected character actor and occasional leading man in quirky cinematic cult favorites, Bridges is now viewed as the real-life version of Jeff Lebowski (crossed with Bad Blake…
It's a common question. If you could spend a night out drinking with if any fictional character, who would it be? My own answer always changes, but I can imagine enjoying a meandering midsummer's night amidst clattering ten-pin rolls, endless White Russians and clipped roaches with The Dude. I can also imagine enjoying a drunken debacle where every drink laments lost love with Bad Blake or a straight whiskey roller coaster with Rooster Cogburn. And each of these amazing imagined evenings brings the problem of reviewing a celebrity album into focus. How does an actor make us forget their most memorable characters, people we feel we...
Bridges fully inhabits his vocal turns, giving each song a clear point of view and real sense of character.