The Music Pages | November 2008


	Cat. No.: 478 1029 Barcode: 0028947810292 Label: Decca CD Release Date: November			Jason Donovan \| Let it be me ARTISTS Jason Donovan, vocalist TRACK LISTING Let It Be Me It's All In The Game Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Halfway To Paradise Be My Baby Dream Lover Sealed With A Kiss Blue Velvet Love Letters Sea Of Love Love Hurts Rhythm Of The Rain If I Only Had Time Wondrous Place Lonesome Town Dreamboats and Petticoats (*featuring Hank Marvin on guitar) All The Words We Don’t Say Jason Donovan's first new album for 15 years. Multi-million-selling singer Jason Donovan is back and returns to his roots with a superb new album of nostalgic Fifties and Sixties ballads and love songs, ‘Let It be Me’. The collection pays homage to the era of romance. It promises to be Jason’s most accomplished and mature album yet. Jason, who kicks off a 24-date UK tour called Pictures & Postcards in November, has proven his enduring appeal as a pop singer and 80s heart-throb as one of today’s with world sales of 13 million albums and four UK No. 1s. Following the release of his second album ‘Between The Lines’, he became 1989’s biggest selling artist throughout the UK and Europe. With his version of ‘Sealed With A Kiss’ in 1989 Jason topped the charts. Its inclusion on ‘Let It Be Me’ shows how his career has come full circle in the last two decades combining a nod to his 80s heyday with nostalgic pop songs featuring great melodies and lyrics. Music has always been a driving force for the singer but ‘Let It Be Me’ is his first album release since 1994's ‘All Around The World’ and his ‘Greatest Hits’ in 2006. Now 40, Jason admits his past struggles with drugs, documented in his frank 2007 autobiography ‘Between The Lines’, has given his current work a new dimension. His surprise Bali marriage in May this year to his long-term partner, stage manager Angela Malloch and the birth of his two children, Jemma and Zac, have cemented his personal contentment which he feels reflects in his latest project. “Becoming a father has driven me and there is a focus to why I’m doing my work. The blond, blue-eyed kid that was looking for respect in the 80s and 90s has had to go through what I’ve been through to be able to earn it. My voice is better and I’m just more confident in my job. I’m genuinely excited about recording again. I sing these songs as they are and they suit my vocals,” he says. “I’m a true romantic. I must be. I guess when you take your girlfriend to Bali and then marry her a few days after proposing, there has to be some romance in your soul,” he says. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 431 1232 Barcode: 00601143112324 Label: Rounder CD Release Date: November			Mary Chapin Carpenter Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs of Christmas ARTISTS Mary Chapin Carpenter TRACK LISTING 1 Once In Royal David's City 2 Hot Buttered Rum 3 Still Still Still 4 On A Quiet Christmas Morn 5 Come Darkness, Come Light 6 Christmas Time In The City 7 Candlelight Carol 8 The Longest Night Of The Year 9 Thanksgiving Song 10 Bells Are Ringing 11 Christmas Carol 12 Children, Go Where I Send Thee Finally, a Christmas album worth listening to all year long. When Mary Chapin Carpenter set out to create ‘Come Darkness, Come Light’, she took a far different approach to recording a holiday album than most artists do. Rather than simply lending her voice to time-worn Christmas standards, Mary Chapin wrote her own set of heartfelt songs which explore the many meanings and emotions that Christmas evokes in each of us. These songs, mixed with a few hand-picked gems from other writers and rarely heard traditional tunes, will speak directly to the hearts of all Mary Chapin Carpenter fans. These are not merely holiday songs, they are simply great Mary Chapin Carpenter songs, both warm and intimate. And while they artfully capture the spirit of the season, this is a rare Christmas album that doesn't feel like it needs to be kept on the shelf between New Year's and Thanksgiving. With stellar support from longtime musical partners Jon Carroll (piano) and co-producer John Jennings (guitars), Mary Chapin's voice goes down as warmly as hot cider on a cold winter's night. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 178 4885 Barcode: 00602517848856 Label: Verve CD Release Date: November			LINDA EDER \| The Other Side of Me ARTISTS Linda Eder TRACK LISTING 1 Pieces 2 If You Believe (The Way I Do) 3 Lifted 4 If I Could 5 Back To Life 6 Other Side Of Me 7 Waiting For The Fall 8 Prayer For Love 9 Both Sides Now 10 They Are The Roses 11 Ghost 12 Make Today Beautiful One of America's premier singers of pop standards and Broadway tunes, the former Star Search winner and star of the long running hit musical Jekyll and Hyde is back with a more intimate Country-Pop sound. Highlights include "Pieces", "Make Today Beautiful" and Eder's own composition "Waiting for the Fall". Also included are Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" and "Ghost" by Emily Saliers of The Indigo Girls. Eder's vocal range and stunning talents encompass nearly every style from cabaret to classical. She brings all of these extraordinarily talents to the material on The Other Side of Me, her 10th album. RETURN TO THE TOP