Wynonna - Sing Chapter 1

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:48
Size: 104.9 MB
Styles: Country pop
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. That's How Rhythm Was Born
[4:03] 2. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
[4:37] 3. Women Be Wise
[2:53] 4. I Hear You Knocking
[3:20] 5. Till I Get It Right
[4:46] 6. Are The Good Times Really Over
[2:31] 7. The House Is Rockin'
[3:17] 8. Ain't No Sunshine
[4:02] 9. I'm A Woman
[3:59] 10. Anyone Who Had A Heart
[4:14] 11. When I Fall In Love
[4:57] 12. Sing

Celebrating 25 years in the music business, Wynonna's 7th solo album includes a stunning collection of multi-genre standards from musical legends that have impacted Wynonna's personal life. Wynonna explains, 'Every genre of music is represented on this record. It's all the different chapters of my life. These are the songs that represent snapshots or chapters of everyday life in the Judd family'. Produced by the Grammy Award winning Brent Maher (The Judds, Nickel Creek, Kenny Rogers) and lifelong Judd family friend Don Potter, discover the album that has become known as Wynonna's musical DNA.

Sing Chapter 1

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Dionne Warwick - My Friends And Me

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:48
Size: 109.4 MB
Styles: Vocal, R&B, Adult Contemporary
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:52] 1. Walk On By (Feat. Gloria Estefan)
[2:58] 2. Message To Michael (Feat. Cyndi Lauper)
[3:58] 3. Close To You (Feat. Mya)
[4:17] 4. I'll Never Love This Way Again (Feat. Gladys Knight)
[2:25] 5. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (Feat. Kelis)
[3:55] 6. Déjà Vu
[3:06] 7. I Say A Little Prayer (Feat. Reba Mcentire)
[3:42] 8. Anyone Who Had A Heart (Feat. Wynonna Judd)
[3:24] 9. Then Came You (Feat. Lisa Tucker)
[3:01] 10. Wishin' And Hopin' (Feat. Olivia Newton-John)
[4:55] 11. Love Will Find A Way (Feat. Cheyenne Elliott)
[3:25] 12. The Windows Of The World (Feat. Deborah Cox)
[5:44] 13. Do You Know The Way To San Jose (Feat. Celia Cruz)

My Friends & Me, Dionne Warwick's collection of duets that revisit her classic recordings, benefits from her many talented friends in the music industry, but most of all from a family member. Her son Damon Elliott has worked with his mother for close to ten years, when he's not producing for contemporary hitmakers Pink, Destiny's Child, Jessica Simpson, Kelis, and Mya. Elliott's production for this record is engaging and charming, right up to the minute digitally on the rhythm end, but with plenty of space within the tracks to echo the airy productions of Warwick's long-time producer, Burt Bacharach. Also, Elliott kept most of these versions piano-based and added a tight backing chorus that is virtually necessary for anyone familiar with the original "Walk on By" or "Anyone Who Had a Heart." Dionne Warwick's voice, however, hasn't aged as well as her contemporaries, and the record often resembles a tribute album whose subject only stops by occasionally. (More often than not, the guests are featured more than Warwick herself.) The only track with radical changes is "The Windows of the World," which is presented with no less than four vocal guests (Angie Stone, Chanté Moore, Deborah Cox, Da Brat) and in a version that allows Da Brat to rap on the state of the world between the lines of the verses. Elsewhere, highlights come with Cyndi Lauper's quiet, pleading version of "Message to Michael," Kelis' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," and Wynonna Judd's surprisingly smoky "Anyone Who Had a Heart." ~John Bush

My Friends And Me

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Wynonna Judd - Sing Chapter 1

Styles: Vocal, Country
Year: 2009
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 46:16
Size: 74,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:05)  1. That's How Rhythm Was Born
(4:05)  2. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
(4:39)  3. Women Be Wise
(2:55)  4. I Hear You Knocking
(3:23)  5. Till I Get It Right
(4:49)  6. Are The Good Times Really Over
(2:33)  7. The House Is Rockin'
(3:19)  8. Ain't No Sunshine
(4:05)  9. I'm A Woman
(4:01) 10. Anyone Who Had A Heart
(4:17) 11. When I Fall In Love
(4:59) 12. Sing

Wynonna Judd's excellent 2003 outing What the World Needs Now Is Love was steeped in rock & roll and country tunes done in her inimitable fashion. It reflected Judd's uncanny ability to sing new music with the passion, style, and finesse of the old gems. Country and pop radio being what they are namely, paranoid frightened defective computers with human faces all but ignored it. The radio and video channel worlds reflect the very definition of insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Rather than trying something different by showcasing real quality and individualism, they become narrower and more paranoid with each passing year as they program recycled crap. Update 2009: Wynonna Judd is back with Sing: Chapter 1, a collection of standards and cover tunes that have inspired her throughout her life and career. And it's a stunner. Produced by Brent Maher and Don Potter, this set contains 12 tracks that range from country music standards to blues tunes, R&B nuggets, and American pop radio classics by the masters. The opener is a reading of the prewar 1932 finger-poppin' swinger "That's How Rhythm Was Born" (wherein Judd and Vicki Hampton do their own Andrews Sisters on the backing chorus). Judd delivers it effortlessly with all the good time verve and a smoking Stéphane Grappelli-inspired violin solo by Fats Kaplan the original contained, but with a bit more sass. She counters this with a gorgeous, deeply emotional, string-laden version of Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," that is as dramatic and darkly dreamy as ANYTHING k.d. lang ever attempted.

This is followed by a beautiful version of Sippie Wallace's "Women Be Wise," with all of its sassy natural inflections retained even as Judd updates the context, and then a version of Dave Bartholomew's New Orleans R&B stomper "I Hear You Knockin'" that gives the Dave Edmunds cover a run for its money  and comes damn close to Fats Domino's. Other country classics include Merle Haggard's "Are the Good Times Really Over for Good," Stevie Ray Vaughan's "The House Is Rockin'" (and here it really does), and a completely shocking, utterly bereft deep soul-blues reading of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine." Here, the simmering, smoldering eros in Judd's voice is tempered with genuine loneliness, accented by the nylon-string guitar and a convincing string arrangement. It's devastating. Add to this a shuffling bluesy rocker in Leiber & Stoller's "I'm a Woman," with some smoking Rhodes piano, and you have the uptempo part of the program covered. But add the three ballads that close the set the Bacharach/David "Anyone Who Had a Heart," the 1952 standard "When I Fall in Love," and the closing title track by Rodney Crowell and you have true classicism. This final track is a new pop country anthem; it underscores Judd's sheer individualism and style, and offers a complete illustration of her gifts as a singer. Sing: Chapter 1 is perfection in performance, material, production, and musical execution. Judd is reinventing herself AS herself: she is a country singer every bit the individual that Patsy Cline was, and is so iconoclastic with her phrasing, tension, shading, and drama that she is a truly unique stylist (a rarity in the 21st century). If you want to hear a singer's singer, one who can move you to the core of your being with her way of interpreting a song, Wynonna Judd's deeply moving, authentic Sing: Chapter 1 is a fine place to begin. This may be her finest hour.~Thom Jurek http://www.allmusic.com/album/sing-chapter-1-mw0000805828

Personnel:  Roy Agee – trombone;  Eddie Bayers – drums; Brian Beatty – background vocals;  Kerry Beatty – background vocals;  Bekka Bramlett – background vocals;  Bob Britt – electric guitar;  Elicia Brown – background vocals;  Jeremy Calloway – background vocals;  Spencer Campbell – bass guitar; Maurice Carter – background vocals; Bruce Dailey – piano;  Mark Douthit – tenor saxophone

Sing Chapter 1

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