How have I missed this? It’s been out for seven years!
Anyway, it’s mostly wonderful stuff, with a mixture of lounge singers doing alternative songs, alternative singers doing lounge songs, weird mixes of people doing 60s stuff, and a couple of great originals.
One of those originals is Poe’s “Rose Is A Rose” (note: no beginning “A”, which is correct to Stein’s original), written by her brother, with wonderful lyrics. Does anybody know whatever happened to Poe? How did she fail to become a superstar, given the fine albums she was also putting out around that time?
The other original is Chris Ballew’s “Robert Goulet (On the River Nile)” a one-man-band production, whose lyrics are also fine.
Everybody who listens to this will have a different set of favorites. I especially liked the tracks from Combustible Edison and The James Taylor Quartet, but only the slower, quieter stuff didn’t work for me…
Now a question. The reviewer comments on Amazon make it sound that this album is part of a series. Does anybody know what the other titles are?