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Cat. No.: 723 0457 |
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JONI MITCHELL | Shine
TRACK LISTING One Week Last Summer
Legendary singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell is the next artist signed to the newly formed label. Hear Music and will release “Shine,” a 10-song collection which” will be available at both traditional retailers and Starbucks Company-operated locations. Described by Mitchell as “as serious a work as I’ve ever done,” “Shine” presents beautiful melodies, dark lyrics and a sparseness that recalls and even progresses beyond some the artist’s most seminal recordings. Much of the lyrical content reflects Mitchell’s social and theological consciousness and her longtime plea for the health of the planet. “Joni’s voice, both in the physical and lyrical sense, is as powerful as ever,” said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment who also oversees Hear Music. “In addition to her extraordinary song-writing ability, she is a Renaissance artist in the every sense and we are honoured to release this timely and exceptionally moving work.” Two songs included on “Shine,” “If” (based Mitchell's favourite poem by Rudyard Kipling) and “If I Had a Heart,” were featured in the “The Fiddle and The Drum" when it premiered on February 8, 2007. It was then that The New York Times described Mitchell's “If I Had a Heart” as “one of most haunting melodies she has ever written.” The album also contains a joyous reinterpretation of her classic hit song, “Big Yellow Taxi” which was also featured in the ballet. |
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Cat. No.: 475 9446 |
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SHIRLEY BASSEY | Get The Party Started
TRACK LISTING 1. Get the Party Started
One of the world’s best-loved singing legends, Dame Shirley Bassey, releases new, exciting album worldwide! Dame Shirley is legendary for her thrilling voice and dazzling performances, as well as for being the voice behind three James Bond film theme songs. This album contains new mixes of many of her greatest hits, including ‘Big Spender’, ‘I Will Survive’ and ‘You Only Live Twice’. ‘When the single 'The Living Tree' stormed the UK charts in May 2007, Dame Shirley became the artist with the longest singles chart career in music history, with over 50 years worth of singles hits, overtaking Elvis Presley who managed 49 years! The Living Tree’ is a completely new song, not heard before by Dame Shirley’s fans, and so a major selling point. Get the Party Started has been plugged in the UK regularly on major radio and television shows, where Dame Shirley is much in demand for appearances and interviews
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Cat. No.: 171 9060 |
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PAULA COLE | Courage
TRACK LISTING Comin' Down Grammy-Award winning, singer/songwriter Paula Cole rediscovers her love of music with her new CD, Courage. Her first album in eight years, Courage marks both Cole’s long-awaited return to the spotlight. Born the daughter of musicians in Rockport, Massachusetts, Cole grew up singing for fun; American songbooks, traditional folksongs, Christmas carols, a capella harmonies. While finding kindred spirits in records, she became a fixture in her school musicals, which catapulted her toward a scholarship for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied jazz singing and improvisation. "I wanted to get inside the chord structure of songs, so that I could improvise inside the changes, " she says. "but it wasn't meant to be... "I began writing my own songs, and it took me down another path." While a senior at Berklee, she was offered a deal with a jazz label, but declined. "It came too easily, and I didn't want to be limited just to jazz. Something wasn't quite right. So I continued singing weddings and waitressing as I tried to find my inner songs." In 1993, Peter Gabriel asked her to join his Secret World Tour, after hearing Cole's Imago debut, "Harbinger." Throughout 1994-6, Cole toured America extensively, building a foundation of support that then embraced her 1997 album "This Fire." It became a breakthrough smash yielding the hits, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" and "I Don't Want to Wait" (which was used as the theme song to the hit WB show Dawson's Creek), and the 1997 Grammy win for Best New Artist. In 1999, she released her third, spiritually soul-influenced album "Amen." From today's perspective, she has created her finest album: tender, tough, older, wiser… Cole steers her way through the manifold experiences of an adult American woman who has seen much, lost much, gained much, and yet has regained her innocence. It feels like the work of a woman who is in the right place at the right time. Getting to that simple place, as we all know, takes Courage every day. This song of life is the work of someone back from the prairie. Even more certain that life is hard-won but good, and that from experience should come grace. |
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Cat. No.: 172 0439 |
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MEDESKI SCOFIELD MARTIN & WOOD | Out Louder ARTIST WEBSITES TRACK LISTING 1 Little Walter Rides Again
BONUS CD MEDESKI SCOFIELD MARTIN & WOOD – OUT LOUDER It's a match made not above nor below, but rather in some altogether hipper, funkier place. We're talking John Medeski, Billy Martin, and Chris Wood, plus guitar guru John Scofield. On their new release OUT LOUDER, they make music not of this world, yet rooted in the earth tones of jazz, funk, and blues. Music from the heart, for the mind, and made to shake the earth, not to mention the body. Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood first recorded together on Scofield's A Go Go (Verve 1998), a disc that has become a must-have classic. That project united jazz guitarist Scofield with the improvisational jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood on material composed by Scofield and interpreted by all four musicians. Recorded in under a week at Shacklyn, MMW's fabled downtown Brooklyn studio, OUT LOUDER reeks of the scruffy, spirited basement in which it was created. "Something about being down there made the music that much grungier," says Wood. "It gave us that feeling of being a hungry garage band searching for the coolest licks and grooves without worrying about making everything perfect. We could just let it all hang out. Everyone was set up in the same room with all our amps and equipment, and you could feel what everyone else was playing that much better and really react to everything around you." |
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Cat. No.: 475 9382 |
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ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUS | Raising Sand
TRACK LISTING 1. Rich Woman (Dorothy LaBostrie-McKinley Millet)
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, two of the most distinctive vocalists in modern music, recently put the finishing touches on Raising Sand - their astonishing new collaborative album. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles with a stellar cast of supporting musicians, including guitarists Marc Ribot and Norman Blake, multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, drummer Jay Bellerose, and bassist Dennis Crouch. Plant is quick to define Raising Sand as more a band record than a duet record, as it puts the two great singers in a variety of vocal and instrumental combinations - from songs featuring two-part brother-style harmony throughout to solo features for each. Though they come from entirely different traditions, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant create an amazing, unexpected, and entirely new sound when they sing together. The material, ingeniously chosen by Burnett with input from Plant and Krauss, is the crucial thread that guides Raising Sand and gives the two unique singers a forum to interact and equally express themselves. The songs range from modern to classic, consisting mostly of lesser-known material from a wide spectrum of great blues, R&B, country, and folk songwriters - Tom Waits, Gene Clark, Little Milton Campbell, Mel Tillis, Townes Van Zandt, Doc Watson, Phil and Don Everly among them. They also recorded the Robert Plant/Jimmy Page song "Please Read the Letter," from the 1998 album Walking Into Clarksdale. "You've got two singers that can handle a wide range of material - storytellers," explains Burnett. "So you look for the stories..." Krauss explained that the genesis of Raising Sand came about seven years ago, when Plant called to say hello and that he'd love to work with her someday. A few years later, Plant made good on his word and called Krauss about participating in a Leadbelly tribute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where they sang together for the first time. The collaboration revealed instant potential to the pair, and several years later they enlisted Burnett to help them realize a more full-scale collaboration. |
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