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Volume XI: A Better Place Music | List Price | $13.99 (You save $2.00) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative | | Label | Hush | | Orig Year | 2006 | | CD Universe Part number | 7300993 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 14, 2006 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo |
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Greatest-hits collections by artists who recorded for a number of different labels throughout long careers are always a double-edged sword, and this Camden collection is no exception. This 18-cut selection is chock-full of great tunes and some monster hits -- but none of them come from Gladys Knight & the Pips' Motown period or before. Everything here was issued on the Buddah label in the 1970s, owned and distributed by Capitol. That said, what is here is amazingly solid: "Midnight Train to Georgia," "You're the Best Thing That Ever happened to Me," "Part Time Love," "Home Is Where the Heart Is," "I've Got to Use My Imagination," "So Sad the Song," etc. In fact, some argue (and they'd be right) that there is a serious case to be made for Gladys Knight's 1970s and early-'80s music -- rather than her work at Motown -- being her best. Camden is a British EMI imprint, specializing in reissues of this type. This comp sold wonderfully in Britain when it was released in 1998 because there are no less than a dozen U.K. hits on it. The sound is better than decent, there are some informative liner notes, and the package is solidly priced. ~ Thom Jurek
Greatest-hits collections by artists who recorded for a number of different labels throughout a long career are always a double-edged sword, and this Camden collection is no exception. This 18-cut selection is chock-full of great tunes and some monster hits, but none of them come from Gladys Knight & the Pips' Motown period or before. Everything here was issued on the Buddah label in the 1970s, owned ...
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When it comes to the coffeehouse circuit, the singer/songwriter is someone who takes himself or herself very seriously, and for listeners to really get what the singer/songwriter is about, they must approach the artist's work with the same seriousness. Otherwise, all of the focus on life, love, and the meaning of it all falls flat. Peter Mulvey understands this, and undercuts anyone who might label him a navel-gazer on one of Notes from Elsewhere's livelier cuts, "The Trouble with Poets." "The Trouble with Poets," it seems, "is they talk too much" and "they see poetry everywhere." Having said that, however, doesn't keep Mulvey from filling the remainder of the song with wry observations on life, time, and love, all set to poetry. Mulvey has pulled a number of songs that he has written between 1991 and 2005 from his back pages, and given them unity by relying on stripped-down arrangements of acoustic guitar and voice. While this may sound like Folk 101, he's also a good guitarist, and this is especially evident on a likable instrumental piece like "Black Rabbit." As a minor aside, it would have been nice to have the printed lyrics with the CD. Words, after all, are central to Mulvey and most singer/songwriters' visions. For Mulvey fans and anyone who enjoys carefully chosen words carefully delivered, Notes from Elsewhere is a well-crafted release. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.
The first thing that strikes you, when listening to Peter Mulvey's new solo retrospective, Notes from Elsewhere, is how complete it feels. A voice and a guitar. The facts. When an artist's work is reduced to element, it inevitably tells something about the musicality at the bottom line. In this case, the approach also reveals a complexity of detail, a bedrock of solid technique, and a fullness and range of effect that are rare in a solo recording. It's the sort of sufficiency that can only be got through long years and hard listening.There is, of course, the guitar. The speed and precision, the rawness and restraint, the delicate touch - like a haywagon rolling down hill on fire, driven by a man wearing an expensive suit. On songs like "If Love Is Not Enough" (first recorded on the 1995 album Rapture, and an enduring fan favorite), Mulvey, alone with his guitar, takes his own leads, not like a blues player picking the melody out against the open strings, but like a lead player trading short flurries of notes with the bass. It's safe at this point to say that Peter Mulvey has figured out ...
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