ARTIST: Lizz Wright
TITLE: Dreaming Wide Awake
LABEL: Verve Forecast
GENRE: Jazz
BITRATE: 181kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 45min total
RELEASE DATE: 14 Jun 2005
RIP DATE: 21 May 2005
Track List
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01. A Taste Of Honey 3:51
02. Stop 3:32
03. Hit The Ground 3:31
04. When I Close My Eyes 3:16
05. I'm Confessin' 2:58
06. Old Man 3:41
07. Wake Up, Little Sparrow 3:00
08. Chasing Strange 3:48
09. Get Together 4:42
10. Trouble 5:12
11. Dreaming Wide Awake 3:44
12. Without You 4:05
Release Notes:
With her latest album, Dreaming Wide Awake, Lizz Wright has simultaneously
delivered a record with "no history" and yet one that embraces the history
of jazz, gospel, rhythm-and-blues and the singer-songwriter tradition. It
is a record where Lizz WrightÆs voice and vision seamlessly marry songs
once performed by Neil Young, Fats Waller, The Beatles, Madonna and Herb
AlpertÆs Tijuana Brass to self-penned originals and her collaborations
with some of todayÆs most gifted songwriters to create one of the most
strikingly original albums of the year.
For the new album, Wright chose to work with Craig Street, a producer
famous for his work with a broad palette of singers (Cassandra Wilson, k.d.
lang, Me'Shell NdegΘOcello) to shape an incredibly personal album that
Wright feels best reflects who she is right now: "When I first met Craig,
he asked me what I liked to listen to and I said I really like stuff like
Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice and Sarah McLachlan. I love songs that create
moments. At the same time I had this dilemma where IÆve been trained to
sing gospel, choral music and a little bit of opera and was very used to
being technical. But I wanted to make the move away from those styles."