Songs From the Street

構成数 : 2枚
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Personnel: Murray McLauchlan (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bottleneck guitar, harmonica, piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer); Danny Greenspoon (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 6-string bass); Bob Ezrin (vocals, keyboards, percussion); Jorn Andersen (vocals, drums, percussion); Shawne Jackson, Sharon Lee Williams (vocals, background vocals); Maxine Dixon, Neil Jason, Bill Champlin, Carole Pope (vocals); Peter Follet (guitar, electric guitar); Mike McKenna (guitar, slide guitar); Bruce Cockburn (guitar, background vocals); Gene Martynec (guitar); Ron Dann, Paul Prestopino (dobro); Ben Mink (mandola, mandolin, violin, fiddle, viola, background vocals); Eric Weissberg (mandolin); Cameron Wilson, Angelique Toews (violin); Finn Manniche (cello); Harry Skura, William Richards, Paul Armin, Jaak Liivoja, Adele Armin, Richard Armin (strings); Eric Robertson (piano, organ); Patrick Godfrey, Barry Flast (piano); Warren Bernhardt (keyboards); Larry Kraman (synthesizer); Kit Johnson (5-string bass, 6-string bass); Bucky Berger (drums, percussion, background vocals); Andy Newmark, Barry Keane (drums, percussion); Chris Parker , Bob Disalle, Richard Kollgore, Jay Telfer, Al Cross (drums); Chris Skene, Bernie Finkelstein, Tom Wilson , Allan "Jake" Jacobs, Kathleen Whelan, Raun MacKinnon, Terry Wilkins, The Jordanaires, Barney Bentall, Colina Phillips (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Chris Skene; Pete Wonsiak. Audio Remixers: Rick Hart; Bob Ezrin; John Rosenthal. Liner Note Author: Nicholas Jennings. Recording information: Eastern Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Kensington Sound Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Mantra Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Rebecca Cohn Theatre, Dalhousie Arts Cenre, Halifax, No (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Record Plant, NY (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Thunder Sound Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Thunder Sound, Ontario, Canada (04/13/1971-??/??/2005); Woodland Sound, Nashville, TN (04/13/1971-??/??/2005). Photographers: Gerry Thompson; Bart Schoales; Andrew MacNaughtan; Bruce Cole. Arrangers: Allan MacMillan; Murray McLauchlan; Bob Ezrin; Finn Manniche. Murray McLauchlan is a Canadian songwriter who has been recording since 1971, and is a contemporary of Bruce Cockburn's without the Christian or political trappings. That's not a knock on Cockburn, it's just that the two have been labelmates since the beginning (True North), and Cockburn has gotten the lion's share of attention by far. This double-disc, 36-cut retrospective reveals the truth of the matter: Murray McLauchlan is a genius, a treasure, a writer of such uncommon wealth and literacy, bare bones life experience, and storyteller's drama, that he is in the class that belongs to Townes Van Zandt, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Cisco Houston, or Tom T. Hall -- though he doesn't sound remotely like any of them, and doesn't even play country music. McLauchlan is more of an acquired taste, but he's also far more diverse. He has been able to do it all, as evidenced by this excellent collection of tracks issued between 1971-2005. McLauchlan is his own hybrid of the very best: Harry Nilsson, Warren Zevon, and a young and angry Billy Joel who has Loudon Wainwright's wit. Add to this the droll cool of Paul Simon and you begin to get the picture, but it's a shifting one, mercurial, because McLauchlan is his own guy, and the referents used here are merely for the purpose of illuminating a potential listener: check the song samples! The bottom line is that McLauchlan never spent a ton of money on the production of his records. They are all immediate, full of the ambience of the studio, and they communicate very directly. His reedy voice is obsessed with the tunes he writes and he writes about it all: living on the street, desolation, drunken joy, money, class, trav
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