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Laura Tate: I Must Be Dreaming: A Tribute to the Music of Mel Harker
ByTate, channeling Harker's music covers a lot of ground, from the roadhouse country funk of "Snake Tattoo" to the New Orleans-Carribean tang of "No Place to Hide" to the Reggae-inflected "Counting Up The Ways." Tate excels on the "Cowboy Swing" pieces like the title tune, "Talk is Cheap" and "Cowboy Jazz." Tate sings with a jazz sophistication that has little of the unhinged abandon present in Mandy Lemons' or Eliza Neal's singing. This not a bad thing, offing the listener a larger plate of music from which to sample. The big band pieces make this recording sing.
Track Listing
Snake Tattoo; No Place to Hide; What a Way to Go; I Must Bbe Dreaming; Dead End Road; Talk is Cheap; If Forever Should End; Cowboy Jazz; Counting Up The Ways; Don’t Try to Talk Me Out of Loving You; Too Blue; Hold On (The Edge of Your Love).
Personnel
Laura Tate: vocals; Terry Wilson guitars, bass drums, organ (7), piano (2, 4, 9); strings (10, 12); Lee Thornberg: bass; Teresa James: backup vocals; Wally Ingram: percussion; Billy Watts: guitars; Paulie Cerra: saxophones; David Fraser: harmonica; Lewis Stephens: keyboards; Jeff Paris: keyboards; Karen Hammack: piano; Richard Millsap: timbales.
Album information
Title: I Must Be Dreaming: A Tribute to the Music of Mel Harker | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Self Produced
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