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Where most singer-songwriters making an album of torch songs would stick with the usual suspects--"One More for the Road" or "As Time Goes By," perhaps--Nanci Griffith has made a career out of rarely doing what's expected. As a result, RUBY'S TORCH, her album of jazzy, lovelorn numbers, features not only startlingly apt reinterpretations of two of her own songs, "Late Night Grande Hotel" and "Brave Companion of the Road," but also unexpected choices from songwriters as diverse as Tom Waits (three of his songs, in fact) and Jimmy Webb. Griffith also extracts something new and personal from the overplayed soft-rock hit "Bluer Than Blue," a sappy late-1970s charter for one-hit-wonder Michael Johnson. This lovely collection even checks in with the requisite Sinatra nod, a fine version of "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning."
Personnel: Michael Johnson (acoustic guitar); Larry Paxton (electric guitar, acoustic bass); Mary Kathryn Vanosdale, Connie Ellisor, David Angell (violin); Monisa Angell (viola); John Catchings, Anthony LaMarchina (cello); James Hooker (piano, organ); Pat McLnerney (drums, percussion); Rick Lonow (drum).
Q (p.145) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Typically, she's innovative in her song selection..."
JazzTimes (p.73) - "45 minutes of gorgeously rendered torch singing....[With] profoundly beautiful reworkings of two of her finest compositions."
No Depression (p.84) - "She finds startling dimension in the AM radio chestnut 'Bluer Than Blue'..." Nanci Griffith Ruby's Torch Songs Ruby's Torch Music Review Purchase Ruby's Torch CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Nanci Griffith Clock Without Hands CD (2001)
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STUMBLE INTO GRACE was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Over three decades into a highly successful career as an interpreter of other writers' material, Emmylou Harris beats the odds by releasing her ...
| | Nanci Griffith Hearts In Mind CD (2004)
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A trip to Southeast Asia and the U.S. invasion of Iraq seem to have inspired much of Nanci Griffith's 12th studio album of new, original material, Hearts in Mind. "I don't want your wars to take my children," Griffith sings in the country-folk opener, "A Simple Life," and at the album's end, in "Big Blue Ball of War," she provides a historical ...
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| | Teenage Crush, Vol. 4 CD (2004)
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Vol. 4 of the Teenage Crush series offers another 28 tracks from the mildest side of late-'50s/early-'60s ...
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| | Goodbye Nashville Hello Camden Town Pub Rock Goodbye Nashville Hello Camden Town: Pub Rock CDs (2007) (Import)
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2007 anthology that summarizes the pub rock scene of late 1970's and early 80's! All the biggest artists are here, including Kilburn & The High Roads (featuring Ian Dury), Eggs Over Easy, Dr Feelgood, The Kursaal Flyers, Mickey Jupp, Brinsley Schwarz (featuring Nick Lowe), Bees Make Honey, The Pirates, Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Chas & Dave, The Count Bishops, Meal Ticket, Nine Below Zero, The Cartoons and more.
A little over ten years after the first great double-disc pub rock set -- EMI's Naughty Rhythms -- comes the second, Castle's Goodbye Nashville, Hello Camden Town: A Pub Rock Anthology. Naughty Rhythms was essentially a primer, relying heavily on the few stars the genre ever produced: Brinsley Schwarz made multiple appearances, as did Kilburn & the High Roads, Dr. Feelgood, and Eddie & the Hot Rods, which was only proper given their prominence in the pubs. Goodbye Nashville digs a little deeper, unearthing many bands that didn't show up on Naughty Rhythms and emphasizing the rootsy country-rock that was certainly a key inspiration in the movement. Sometimes this comes at the expense of stretching the style's somewhat amorphous definition a little bit, but not so much that anybody that'd be inclined to pick up this collection would care. All the country boogie and blues shuffles here fit within the same world, one that is built on old-time rock & roll and lazily stretches into country-rock and folky harmonies, while dabbling into pop learned from the Beatles. These elastic borders mean that Goodbye Nashville is hardly the first listen for somebody looking for an introduction to pub rock, it nevertheless ...
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