Singer And The Songwriter, The / What A Difference A Melody Makes
| Album: | What A Difference A Melody Makes | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Singer And The Songwriter, The | Added: | Jan 2015 | |
| Label: | Mason Jar Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2015-02-27 | Pull Date: | 2015-05-01 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | May 3 | Apr 26 | Apr 19 | Apr 5 | Mar 29 | Mar 22 | Mar 15 | Mar 8 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 16, 2023: | Music Casserole
Summer Song |
4. | May 01, 2015: | Rebop
A Lullaby (For Malcolm), Summer Song |
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| 2. | Jan 01, 2022: | Music Casserole
Summer Song |
5. | Apr 24, 2015: | Rebop
Half The Week |
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| 3. | Mar 13, 2021: | Rebroadcast: Music Casserrole
Summer Song |
6. | Apr 23, 2015: | The Peninsula Report
Pacific Coast Highway |
Album Review
Trish Morgan
Reviewed 2015-01-25
Reviewed 2015-01-25
What a Difference a Melody Makes
The Singer and The Songwriter
Planetary, 2014 Reviewed by Trish Morgan 01-25-2015
At the intersection of gypsy jazz, folk, and blues, this album is open and clean. Rachel Garcia has a beautiful voice and Thu Tran composes perfectly for it. Sounds like Nellie McKay, She & Him, Stacey Kent. No FCCs
Best Tracks: 1, 2, 6, 9
1 The Art of Missing You 2:13 - Lovely little number; mid-tempo
2 Homebody 2:23 - Mid-tempo moving to up-tempo; fun with horns
3 Old Fashioned 3:15 - Musings on guitar lead the way, then opens into swinging uptempo ditty
4 Dry Spell 3:36 - Slow and plaintive drought blues
5 Out of the Fog 3:32 - A Pacific coast, folk-inflected, swaying song
6 Half the Week 2:56 - Uptempo, jazzy number; good piano accompaniment
7 Over the Town 2:22 - Slow, thoughtful with more a folk feel.
8 A Borrowed Room in a Borrowed House 3:07 - Syncopated folk tune that blossoms with strings
9 Pacific Coast Highway 3:00 - Swinging ode to the attractions of the open road; great horns
10 Unlove You 2:47 - Fells a little like an Hawaiian song from the early 60s.
11 Someday 2:15 - Slow and striding song
12 Summer Song 5:48 - Mid-tempo; folk-tinged simple song that moves into lush orchestration then back to simplicity
13 A Lullaby (for Malcolm) 2:55 - Quiet, evocative, gentle
The Singer and The Songwriter
Planetary, 2014 Reviewed by Trish Morgan 01-25-2015
At the intersection of gypsy jazz, folk, and blues, this album is open and clean. Rachel Garcia has a beautiful voice and Thu Tran composes perfectly for it. Sounds like Nellie McKay, She & Him, Stacey Kent. No FCCs
Best Tracks: 1, 2, 6, 9
1 The Art of Missing You 2:13 - Lovely little number; mid-tempo
2 Homebody 2:23 - Mid-tempo moving to up-tempo; fun with horns
3 Old Fashioned 3:15 - Musings on guitar lead the way, then opens into swinging uptempo ditty
4 Dry Spell 3:36 - Slow and plaintive drought blues
5 Out of the Fog 3:32 - A Pacific coast, folk-inflected, swaying song
6 Half the Week 2:56 - Uptempo, jazzy number; good piano accompaniment
7 Over the Town 2:22 - Slow, thoughtful with more a folk feel.
8 A Borrowed Room in a Borrowed House 3:07 - Syncopated folk tune that blossoms with strings
9 Pacific Coast Highway 3:00 - Swinging ode to the attractions of the open road; great horns
10 Unlove You 2:47 - Fells a little like an Hawaiian song from the early 60s.
11 Someday 2:15 - Slow and striding song
12 Summer Song 5:48 - Mid-tempo; folk-tinged simple song that moves into lush orchestration then back to simplicity
13 A Lullaby (for Malcolm) 2:55 - Quiet, evocative, gentle
Track Listing
| 1. | The Art Of Missing You | 8. | A Borrowed Room In A Borrowed House | |||
| 2. | Homebody | 9. | Pacific Coast Highway | |||
| 3. | Old Fashioned | 10. | Unlove You | |||
| 4. | Dry Spell | 11. | Someday | |||
| 5. | Out Of The Fog | 12. | Summer Song | |||
| 6. | Half The Week | 13. | A Lullaby (For Malcolm) | |||
| 7. | Over The Town | . |