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| Artist : Phoebe Snow |
| Album : Live |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : Verve Forecast |
| Year : 2008 |
| Genre : Blues |
| Rip date : Oct-14-2008 |
| Store date : Oct-14-2008 |
| Size : 71,0 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Shakey Ground 04:12 |
| 02 - Something Real 03:33 |
| 03 - It's All In The Game 04:53 |
| 04 - If I Can Just Get Through Tonight 04:54 |
| 05 - Poetry Man 05:23 |
| 06 - You're My Girl 06:04 |
| 07 - Natural Wonder 04:07 |
| 08 - The Other Girlfriend 05:02 |
| 09 - Piece Of My Heart 05:14 |
| 10 - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie 04:35 |
| Flu |
| 11 - With A Song In My Heart 04:55 |
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| 52:52 min |
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| Phoebe Snow is a complex legend in the history of late 20th century |
| popular music. Her first single, "Poetry Man," was her biggest hit back |
| in 1974, but she issued a run of critically successful albums during the |
| rest of the decade, and has recorded quite sparsely since then. This |
| live set on Verve, recorded over two nights in July of 2008 at the |
| historical Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY, is her first major-label |
| album in almost 20 years; it is also her very first in-concert offering. |
| Snow refers to herself as a bit of a "kook" in accounting for her |
| absence, but the truth is far more complex and beautiful. She spent the |
| last 31 years caring for her daughter who was severely brain injured at |
| birth. She passed away in March of 2008, and Snow has returned to |
| performing to insure that her own grief doesn't claim her too. |
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| Snow arrived on the scene a fully developed artist after playing in |
| Greenwich Village clubs before her first album. She shows up on this 11 |
| -song set the same as ever: vocally dynamic, with a deeply disciplined |
| voice that can be as acrobatic as she likes, while performing an array |
| of originals and covers that meld soul, pop, jazz, blues, and folk |
| backed by an empathic band of longtime collaborators including guitarist |
| Roger Butterley and bassist Bob Glaub. Her voice is as rich and varied |
| in 2008 as it was in 1974. Her emotional commitment to the material |
| hasn't waned a bit either. The fire is there, whether she is singing a |
| poignant, joyful love song like "Poetry Man," a hymn of longing |
| disguised as a poppish original like "Something Real," a stolid rhythm & |
| blues fueled rocker like Huey "Piano" Smith's "Rockin' Pneumonia and the |
| Boogie Woogie Flu," or the jazz tinged standard "It's All in the Game." |
| There are some real surprises as well, in a pair of tunes in the center |
| of her set that come from her most recent, little-known, independently |
| released album Natural Wonder: the tile track and the stellar, soulish |
| "The Other Girlfriend." Snow has always been enigmatic and unafraid to |
| take chances. That's evident in her very unique reading of the Jerry |
| Ragavoy-penned "Piece of My Heart," so closely associated with the late |
| Janis Joplin. If all this weren't enough, she closes with a gorgeous |
| version of the Rodgers & Hart nugget "With a Song in My Heart." She |
| connects with each of these songs and in her stage banter, she |
| communicates fiercely and directly with a voice that is simply a force |
| of nature. For those of us who admire and celebrate Snow's considerable |
| gifts as a singer and songwriter, we can only hope this return is not an |
| isolated incident, but an active resumption of a career steeped in |
| artistic excellence. |
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