Cradlesong

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Leah Greenblatt
Leah Greenblatt
Leah Greenblatt
Leah Greenblatt is the former critic at large for movies, books, music, and theater at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2023.
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Published on July 1, 2009 04:00AM EDT

One doesn’t look to the Matchbox Twenty frontman for musical daredevilry, but his second solo disc falls too often into the mom-rock safety net. Cradlesong does best when he pushes a little, as on the trippy,? sprawling ”Fire on the Mountain.” ? C+

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