Nancy Lamott Listen To My Heart CD

 THIS ONE FIRST .... the others next
I must admit that I generally like cabaret singers best when I'm sitting in club. I never got a chance to see Nancy Lamott perform live. But on this album, she has a presence that transcends the limits of the medium. There are a few pop tunes, a bit of cabaret, a touching couple of singer songwriter songs (which somewhat oddly for a cabaret singer) are the two high points of the album. Annie Dinerman's "The Lady Down The Hall" and James Taylor's "The Secret O' Life". In December,1995, I first heard a voice singing on the radio. The voice was very present, very open and very moving. I listened carefully to catch the singer's name. I heard it, prefixed by the word "late". The dj identified the singer as Nancy Lamott. Finding and losing such beauty in so short a span of time was a deeply moving. She recorded several other albums, all of them quite lovely, but I started here. I think that everyone should.
Submitted by dan (the cape)
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 An artist at her peak
This CD, Nancy's last and aruably her best, was recorded shortly before her untimely death at the age of 44. With this recording, she scaled above the usual CDs released by cabaret artists best known in New York and reached a new level, being compared to a young Rosemary Clooney and (favorably to) Barbra Streisand. Her recording of "Ordinary Miracles" indeed leaves Streisand's in the dust, and the other songs are all very special. It's hard to pick favorites, but her signature "Listen to My Heart" and the lovely "Not Exactly Paris" are thrilling in their beautiful simplicity."The Lady Down the Hall" by Annie Dinerman, and David Friedman's "I'll be Here With You" are also lovely. The arrangements by Christopher Marlowe and orchestrations by Peter Matz are a marvel - not overwhelming and overpowering, but thoughtful and elegant. If you are a Nancy LaMott fan, you must own this CD. If you're not yet a fan, what are you waiting for? Midder Music has folded and Nancy's CDs are hard to come by - so my advice is to buy any that you can, and DO NOT LEND THEM OUT - you'll never get them back!
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 Second Marriage
Listen to my heart, enabled me to see the man I loved and was able to commit to try again. He knew and heard all of the hurt and I knew and heard his hurt, we were able to acknowledge it after hearing her songs. It was played at our wedding,
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