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Nanci Griffith - Ruby's Torch CD
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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); Connie Ellisor, Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, 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
| 1 | When I Dream | 3:29 | $0.99 | |
| 2 | If These Walls Could Speak | 3:40 | $0.99 | |
| 3 | Ruby's Arms | 5:28 | $0.99 | |
| 4 | Never Be The Sun | 3:57 | $0.99 | |
| 5 | Bluer Than Blue | 3:18 | $0.99 | |
| 6 | Brave Companion Of The Road | 3:29 | $0.99 | |
| 7 | Grapefruit Moon | 4:20 | $0.99 | |
| 8 | Please Call Me, Baby | 4:11 | $0.99 | |
| 9 | Late Night Grande Hotel | 2:53 | $0.99 | |
| 10 | In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning | 2:51 | $0.99 | |
| 11 | Drops From The Faucet | 4:07 | $0.99 | |
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