Mandy Barnett - Strange Conversation

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:40
Size: 91,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:43) 1. More Lovin'
(3:26) 2. It's All Right (You're Just in Love)
(3:44) 3. Dream Too Real to Hold
(4:49) 4. Strange Conversation
(3:34) 5. A Cowboy's Work is Never Done
(4:29) 6. Puttin' on the Dog
(4:04) 7. All Night
(4:12) 8. My World Keeps Slipping Away
(3:19) 9. The Fool
(3:16) 10. Put a Chain on It

Mandy Barnett casts her net wide on Strange Conversation, her first album since a 2013 tribute to Don Gibson and, really, her first album not to be in a strictly traditional country vein. Working with co-producers Doug Lancio and Marco Giovino, who have respectively collaborated with Patty Griffin and Robert Plant, Barnett decides to play a little bit of everything that constitutes Americana in 2018. This certainly encompasses the straight-ahead country that's firmly within her wheelhouse, but Barnett attempts a bunch of new things, ranging from the sultry Southern R&B groove of the title track to the gritty blues of "Put a Chain on It." Most of Strange Conversation is grounded in the soul identified with Muscle Shoals, which is where the album was recorded, but Barnett bends the form to suit her needs, flaunting a sly wit when she records a John Hiatt duet that sounds like a Tom Waits song ("A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done") and a Tom Waits song that sounds like funk ("Puttin' on the Dog"). It all adds up to what may be the richest record of her career: surprising, lively, and deeply felt.~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine https://www.allmusic.com/album/strange-conversation-mw0003196514

Personnel: Vocals, Harmony Vocals, Ukulele – Mandy Barnett; Accordion – Sonny Barbato; Backing Vocals – Ann McCrary, Brandon Young, Regina McCrary; Baritone Guitar – Billy Masters; Bass – Viktor Krauss; Guitar – Frank Swart, Peter Parcek; Harmonica – Dennis Brennan; Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar – Kylie Harris; Lap Steel Guitar – Thomas Juliano; Organ – Rudy Copeland; Organ, Piano, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] – Tom West; Producer, Drums – Marco Giovino; Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Banjo, Mixed By – Doug Lancio; Saxophone – John Isley; Trombone, Arranged By [Horns] – Neal Pawley

Strange Conversation

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Mandy Barnett - Every Star Above

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:08
Size: 97,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:55) 1. But Beautiful
(4:44) 2. Glad To Be Unhappy
(4:30) 3. For Heaven's Sake
(4:44) 4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
(3:26) 5. It's Easy To Remember
(5:07) 6. The End Of A Love Affair
(3:47) 7. You Don't Know What Love Is
(5:04) 8. I'm a Fool To Want You
(3:54) 9. You've Changed
(2:53) 10. For All We Know

Mandy Barnett, one of Nashville’s enduring musical treasures who has showcased her mesmerizing voice on stages across the globe, started singing at five years-old. She has been singing since. Barnett’s style is rooted in the classic country and pop crooning of iconic singers and timeless sounds. She delves into a song with a keen interpretative sense, getting right down to its emotional core and rendering a powerhouse performance through her “pipes of steel” (Los Angeles Times). As one record executive put it, “Mandy Barnett is a song’s best friend.”

Barnett first gained national prominence as the original star of the musical Always...Patsy Cline at Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium. Barnett, as Cline, performs on the original cast soundtrack album and is the only actress to have played the role on the historic Ryman stage where Cline’s legend began. The Ryman shows sold out nightly and received rave reviews, and Barnett has wowed critics and audiences ever since with her concerts and recordings. Barnett’s critically lauded albums include I’ve Got a Right to Cry, named the “Top Country Album” by Rolling Stone in the year of its release and produced by renowned Nashville Sound pioneer Owen Bradley, who also produced Cline’s most loved chart-toppers (as well as producing Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, and k.d. lang). And Rolling Stone continues to honor this landmark album, placing it in 2019 on two of its “best of” lists of seminal classic country works.

With a string of acclaimed country albums, such as her self-titled Warner Bros. debut, her Christmas celebration Winter Wonderland, the Cline-inspired Sweet Dreams, and I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs of Don Gibson (a tribute to her friend, the late Country Music Hall of Fame member), there’s no doubt Barnett has mastered that genre and holds it dear to her heart. But Barnett is not one to be musically boxed in. Her 2018 Strange Conversation album, an Americana blend of roots, pop, and R&B tunes, includes a duet with John Hiatt and a soulful rendition of Neil Sedaka’s My World Keeps Slipping Away, which Sedaka himself sent to Barnett to record. AllMusic hails Strange Conversation as the “richest record of her career: surprising, lively, and deeply felt,” and The Philadelphia Inquirer, which listed Strange Conversation among the best country/roots albums of 2018, notes that Barnett “takes a disparate collection of pop, soul, and rock numbers and makes a riveting personal statement.”

As further testament to her diversity, Barnett sang on the SpongeBob SquarePants album The Best Day Ever (sharing the spotlight with the likes of Brian Wilson, Tommy Ramone, and Flaco Jimenez) and often incorporates a Great American Songbook standard or two into her live shows. When asked about her favorite composer, Barnett’s as likely to cite Cole Porter or George Gershwin as she is Willie Nelson or Dolly Parton. In fact, along the lines of highlighting Barnett’s range, now out is her A Nashville Songbook, an album of reimagined, multi-generational pop and country gems produced by Fred Mollin (producer of Johnny Mathis, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Webb, etc.) and inspired by Barnett’s popular “Nashville Songbook” concert. A frequent guest on the Grand Ole Opry, Barnett is equally as comfortable on stage with symphony orchestras, having recently performed solo concerts with the Nashville Symphony, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast highlighting her “Nashville Songbook” repertoire. Barnett made her New York City cabaret debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below in 2019 with an acoustic version of her “Nashville Songbook.”

Barnett’s music has been featured in many major film and television soundtracks (most recently, in The CW Network’s series “The Flash”), including projects starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Martin Sheen, Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Sigourney Weaver, Ellen Burstyn, Bill Paxton, and SpongeBob SquarePants. Besides soundtrack work, Barnett often contributes tracks to other types of musical compilations, and she has appeared on “The Tonight Show,” “The Late Show,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” PBS’s “Sessions at West 54th,” PBS’s “Bluegrass Underground,” and numerous other programs. Among the many publications praising Barnett's talents, the Chicago Tribune calls Barnett “a torch singer in the grandest sense of the word.” Time, People, Billboard, Rolling Stone, and other major media have likewise extolled Barnett’s world-class vocals, “natural musicality” (People), “big, silky, expressive voice” (Billboard), and “vocal finesse” (New York Times). USA Today calls Barnett one of Nashville’s “finest classic country and torch singers,” while the Austin Chronicle notes that “when people start talking about Mandy Barnett, eventually the word ‘amazing’ gets used.” https://www.mandybarnett.com/biography

Every Star Above

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Mandy Barnett - I've Got A Right To Cry

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:16
Size: 80.8 MB
Styles: Country
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[2:42] 1. I've Got A Right To Cry
[2:42] 2. Give Myself A Party
[2:33] 3. Who (Who Will It Be)
[3:29] 4. The Whispering Wind (Blows On By)
[2:47] 5. Trademark
[2:35] 6. Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings
[2:26] 7. Falling, Falling, Falling
[3:43] 8. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
[2:10] 9. I'm Gonna Change Everything
[3:20] 10. Mistakes
[3:02] 11. Ever True Evermore
[3:42] 12. Don't Forget To Cry

If ever there was a singer who was born to sing the torch and twang style that Patsy Cline created, it is Mandy Barnett. A soft-spoken performer who belts 'em out with all the guts and grit of the founding mothers of traditional country music, Barnett is amazing. Producer Owen Bradley, a legend himself, is known for his classic production style for country music's true stars like Cline, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, and Brenda Lee. Working at his studio, Barnett was given the kind of support an artist of her caliber deserves. However, Owen Bradley passed away suddenly during the course of production, leaving the project unfinished. Barnett, along with Owen's brother and longtime partner, Harold, as well as Harold's son, Bobby, forged ahead; the result is a lasting and honorable tribute to Owen Bradley's distinguished career, as well as the harbinger of a great career about to blossom. Songs as traditional as the title cut and as jazz-infused as "Who" show off Barnett's talents. Able to rip and roar with the boys, Barnett distinguishes herself on the pure honky tonk of "Trademark" while being very cool as she performs "Falling, Falling, Falling." Barnett pays homage to Cline on "Mistakes" and swings hard on "Don't Forget to Cry." A remarkable feat in the face of Owen Bradley's passing, Mandy Barnett is most certainly one of the few women recording as a country artist who can actually sing country music. She does so with flair and with a sense of history, while still being firmly grounded in who she is and the music she wants to make. I've Got a Right to Cry is lush and breathtaking, fulfilling the promise of the country & western genre and providing the listener great satisfaction. ~Jana Pendragon

I've Got A Right To Cry

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Various - Crazy: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:28
Size: 111.0 MB
Styles: Soundtrack, Country
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[0:11] 1. Larry Klein - Opening Riff
[1:27] 2. Dean Parks - Sugarfoot Rag
[2:48] 3. Madeleine Peyroux - Crazy
[2:14] 4. Stacy Earl - Honky Tonk Blues
[2:48] 5. Larry Koonse - Angel Eyes
[0:47] 6. Soundtrack - Rock-A-Billy Baby
[2:30] 7. Roy Orbison - Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
[1:51] 8. Shawn Colvin - I Can't Stop Loving You
[2:13] 9. Kip Lennon - Jingle Bell Rock
[2:47] 10. Shawn Colvin - Tennessee Waltz
[3:03] 11. Larry Klein - Voom
[1:38] 12. Larry Klein - Lazy
[1:59] 13. Mandy Barnett - Walking After Midnight
[3:08] 14. Madeleine Peyroux - Lonesome Road
[1:35] 15. Dean Parks - Hank's Dream
[1:29] 16. Soundtrack - Dreams In G
[2:54] 17. Mandy Barnett - I Fall To Pieces
[2:47] 18. Larry Klein - Nothing That You Were
[1:37] 19. Larry Klein - Larry's Lament
[4:23] 20. Larry Klein - Jam At The Gate
[2:19] 21. Larry Klein - Hank's Shuffle
[1:47] 22. Dean Parks - Sugarfoot Boogie

Inspired by the tragic life of legendary 1950's-era guitarist Hank Garland, this soundtrack features songs performed by Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Shawn Colvin, Mandy Barnett, Madeleine Peyroux, Stacy Earl, and Kip Lennon. Produced by multiple Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein, Favored Nations CEO/guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, and former Guitar Center-owner Ray Scherr, CRAZY features beautiful vocal renditions by Shawn Colvin, and Madeleine Peyroux as well as blazing instrumentals by Larry Koonse, Dean Parks and many other brilliant artists.

Crazy: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Mandy Barnett - I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs Of Don Gibson

Styles: Country
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:55
Size: 84,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:17)  1. (Yes) I'm Hurting
(2:57)  2. Too Soon To Know
(2:28)  3. Look Who's Blue
(3:25)  4. Sweet Dreams
(3:14)  5. Just One Time
(3:31)  6. Blue Blue Day
(3:06)  7. Oh Lonesome Me
(3:25)  8. Oh Such A Stranger
(2:24)  9. Far Far Away
(3:20) 10. I Can't Stop Loving You
(2:23) 11. Lonesome Number One
(3:20) 12. Legend In My Time

It's a match made in heaven, or at least a match possible only in a place like Nashville where songwriter Don Gibson ventured out one night to a Nashville club hear a young woman, Mandy Barnett, whose sonic voice turned the songs it touched into gold. The two became close friends, and she told Gibson that she'd one day record an album of his songs. A decade after Gibson's death, Barnett has lined up Nashville's A-team of musicians Harold Bradley, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Charlie McCoy, Andy Reiss, Lloyd Green and Alison Krauss - and produced a riveting album that features her soaring country torch voice driving jaunty interpretations as well as throaty ballad phrasings of many of Gibson's familiar songs. The album kicks off with (Yes) I'm Hurting, which features Reiss' Dick Dale-style guitar poise against dashing, urgent, strings while Barnett channels early Connie Smith or Lynn Anderson. On Look Who's Blue, Barnett delivers a rockabilly tune in the style of Wanda Jackson, replete with chicken-picked guitars on the lead break.

Although Barnett has already sung Sweet Dreams thousands of times in her role as Patsy Cline in the play "Always...Patsy Cline," she slows down the album version to a languorous, dream-like ballad. Cascading guitars reminiscent of the Everly Brothers' tunes open the song, and aching steel guitars pierce the song with their cry, and Barnett captures the sweet desire and sweet, painful regret of this "I-can't-quit-you" song. I Can't Stop Loving You is a perfect match for Barnett's torchy voice and the jazz arrangement that recalls Ray Charles' and Ella Fitzgerald's respective versions. Barnett slows Blue Blue Day down, weaving her voice under and around intricate guitar picking and McCoy's haunting harmonica, turning it into a gorgeous ballad in which she makes the blues palpable. With her powerful and spellbinding voice, Barnett pays fitting and loving tribute to Gibson's songs, and she demonstrates once again that she's as at home in a honky tonk as she is in a jazz club.

It's a match made in heaven, or at least a match possible only in a place like Nashville where songwriter Don Gibson ventured out one night to a Nashville club hear a young woman, Mandy Barnett, whose sonic voice turned the songs it touched into gold. The two became close friends, and she told Gibson that she'd one day record an album of his songs. A decade after Gibson's death, Barnett has lined up Nashville's A-team of musicians - Harold Bradley, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Charlie McCoy, Andy Reiss, Lloyd Green and Alison Krauss - and produced a riveting album that features her soaring country torch voice driving jaunty interpretations as well as throaty ballad phrasings of many of Gibson's familiar songs. The album kicks off with (Yes) I'm Hurting, which features Reiss' Dick Dale-style guitar poise against dashing, urgent, strings while Barnett channels early Connie Smith or Lynn Anderson. On Look Who's Blue, Barnett delivers a rockabilly tune in the style of Wanda Jackson, replete with chicken-picked guitars on the lead break. 

Although Barnett has already sung Sweet Dreams thousands of times in her role as Patsy Cline in the play "Always...Patsy Cline," she slows down the album version to a languorous, dream-like ballad. Cascading guitars reminiscent of the Everly Brothers' tunes open the song, and aching steel guitars pierce the song with their cry, and Barnett captures the sweet desire and sweet, painful regret of this "I-can't-quit-you" song. I Can't Stop Loving You is a perfect match for Barnett's torchy voice and the jazz arrangement that recalls Ray Charles' and Ella Fitzgerald's respective versions. Barnett slows Blue Blue Day down, weaving her voice under and around intricate guitar picking and McCoy's haunting harmonica, turning it into a gorgeous ballad in which she makes the blues palpable. With her powerful and spellbinding voice, Barnett pays fitting and loving tribute to Gibson's songs, and she demonstrates once again that she's as at home in a honky tonk as she is in a jazz club. 

~ Henry Carrigan http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=5255http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=525

I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs Of Don Gibson

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Mandy Barnett - Sweet Dreams

Styles: Country
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:04
Size: 87,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:05)  1. Always
(2:43)  2. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
(3:27)  3. Crazy
(2:59)  4. I Fall to Pieces
(4:04)  5. Faded Love
(2:29)  6. Have You Ever Been Lonely
(2:56)  7. Life's Railway to Heaven
(3:32)  8. She's Got You
(3:48)  9. So Wrong
(2:49) 10. Strange
(2:22) 11. Walkin' After Midnight
(3:44) 12. Sweet Dreams

Born Amanda Carol Barnett, Mandy Barnett began singing as a child, winning the Best Country Act at Dollywood when she was only ten, and her mother started bringing her on trips to Nashville. As a teenager, she was signed by renowned talent scout and producer Jimmy Bowen, and eventually Asylum Records. An uncompromising singer whose style was rooted in the classic country of Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Webb Pierce, and Brenda Lee, Barnett's keen interpretive sense enabled her to delve into a song, study the intricacies of its emotional content, and render a powerful performance through her full-bodied voice. Her torchy delivery on her contemporary yet retro-sounding country and pop-tinged material recalled Patsy Cline, so it's no wonder that, while waiting to record her self-titled debut, she paid her bills by playing the legendary singer four nights a week and 26 weeks a year in the musical production Always...Patsy Cline at the Ryman Auditorium. She left Asylum for Sire Records with 1999's I've Got a Right to Cry. Winter Wonderland, a holiday album featuring a vintage Nashville sound, appeared from Rounder Records in 2010, followed by Sweet Dreams on Opry Records in 2011. ~ Bio https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mandy-barnett/id193416#fullText

Sweet Dreams

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