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| Artist : Spencer Day |
| Album : Vagabond |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : Concord Jazz |
| Year : 2009 |
| Genre : Jazz |
| Rip date : Oct-08-2009 |
| Store date : Sep-08-2009 |
| Size : 67,6 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Till You Come To Me 04:14 |
| 02 - Someday 03:21 |
| 03 - Everybody Knows (The Family Skeleton) 03:25 |
| 04 - Weeping Willow 04:26 |
| 05 - Joe 04:06 |
| 06 - Vagabond 03:45 |
| 07 - Summer 04:38 |
| 08 - Vagabond (Reprise) 00:45 |
| 09 - Little Soldier 03:52 |
| 10 - Out Of My Hands 04:45 |
| 11 - I Got A Mind To Tell You 03:46 |
| 12 - Maybe (Tuesday Morning) 03:08 |
| 13 - 25 04:04 |
| 14 - Better Way 04:02 |
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| 52:17 min |
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| Jazz-influenced singer/songwriter Spencer Day's third studio effort and |
| debut for Concord Records, 2009's Vagabond is a softly cinematic piece |
| of crossover pop that positions Day as a kind of thinking man's crooner, |
| or at least a crooning storyteller. A piano player with a burnished |
| baritone voice and a knack for literate moody ballads, Day will of |
| course draw quick and easy comparisons to other similarly inclined |
| contemporaries like Peter Cincotti, Jamie Cullum, and Norah Jones ù |
| which, though true enough, slightly reduces Day's own weighty album |
| presence. Vocally, Day has a bit of the emotional swagger of Michael |
| BublΘ leavened with just enough downtrodden urban skew as to make one |
| think Day has, at the least, listened to Tom Waits. This is especially |
| true on such cathartic pop moments as the character song "Joe" and the |
| lilting and soulful title track. Elsewhere, Day evinces a kind of '60s |
| Elvis quality on the slippery-slick opening number, "Till You Come to |
| Me," and brings to mind a young Harry Connick, Jr. on the slow swinger |
| "I Got a Mind to Tell You." However, it is such superb tunes as the |
| yearning love song "Out of My Hands" and the would-be classic "Maybe |
| (Tuesday Morning)" that help Vagabond rise above the crossover fray and |
| reach toward something more akin to the best of Harry Nilsson and Randy |
| Newman. Ultimately, all of Vagabond is immaculately produced, and a |
| steady mix of strings, horns, and other "old-school" elements ù combined |
| with Day's own creative merits ù helps color the album as a kind of |
| latter-day traditional pop love letter. |
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