Listening Booth: 1970 |  | Artist: Marc Cohn
Label: Saguaro Road Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 159
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
UPC: 610583349627
EAN: 0610583349627
ASIN: B003IFMXAE
Release Date: July 20, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Wild World | | • | Look At Me | | • | Maybe I'm Amazed | | • | Make It With You (with India.Arie) | | • | The Letter | | • | The Only Living Boy In New York | | • | After Midnight | | • | The Tears Of A Clown (with Kristina Train) | | • | No Matter What (with Aimee Mann) | | • | New Speedway Boogie (with Jim Lauderdale) | | • | Into The Mystic | | • | Long As I Can See The Light |
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Product Description
One Sunday morning in the early '70's, a youngster in Cleveland caught an earful of Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' and his life was never the same. That kid was Marc Cohn and soon after that morning he bought everything Morrison had released to date, along with works by Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne.
Cohn's rootsier, acoustic neofolk style harkens back to the more
sophisticated rock and pop inflections of singer-songwriters of two decades past - his supple, velvety baritone and elegant piano-based arrangements frame shrewdly crafted songs ripe with pop touches.
Marc Cohn's new record on Saguaro Road will focus on the year 1970,
an important year for music fans in general and particularly for Marc,
because many significant albums and singles were released then that had an impact on his decision to become an artist.
The album features Marc's personal interpretations of classic songs
written by and/or made famous in 1970 by Paul McCartney, John
Lennon, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison, John Fogerty and CCR, Smokey
Robinson, Joe Cocker, Simon & Garfunkel, Eric Clapton and several
more.
Songs include 'Wild World,' 'The Tears of A Clown,' 'The Letter,' 'Maybe I'm Amazed' and 'Make it With You' and features guest duet with India.Arie.
The album is produced by Grammy-winning producer John
Leventhal (Shawn Colvin, Record of the Year), who also just produced
the new album by Rosanne Cash, 'The List.'
Album Description
Collaborating with longtime producer/arranger and fellow Grammy Award-winner John Leventhal, Marc Cohn doesn't merely recreate the sounds of this storied time. On Listening Booth: 1970, he transforms songs from such artists as Cat Stevens, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Smokey Robinson, CCR, J.J. Cale, Paul Simon and Bread into tracks that are warm, soulful, a little sexy and full of easy-going charm. These highly personal interpretations have been so creatively and confidently re-imagined, they feel brand new. 1970 was a milestone for Marc and for pop culture at large, given the range of notable artists who made the charts that year. The songs of 1970 would stick with him forever, as they would with anyone of a tender age just discovering the deeper meanings and life lessons to be gleaned from a "simple" pop tune.
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 Cool and Creative Covers July 23, 2010
Will (New York, NY)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have to disagree with some of the reviewers. I think Marc Cohn was trying to take songs from his childhood, and make them his own. He's not trying to top Cat Steven, Paul McCartney et al. Marc has a remarkably warm and soulful voice, and it comes through on this album.
If Mr. Cohn was trying to just "cash in", he would not have selected such an eclectic collection of songs and then recorded them with such different arrangements. Instead he puts his stamp on these songs.
If you are looking for straight covers, than I think you missed the point. But if you are looking for cool and emotional versions of some brilliant 1970's songs, this is for you.
Very happily suprised! July 31, 2010
Richard Bunn (Alexandria, VA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been a fan of Mr Cohn for a while. I lived in Memphis in the earl 70s and his first hit took me back. This new collection was great cover of other works. I enjoyed Mr. Cohn's interprutation of these tunes, in may ways more then I enjoyed the originals. It's hard for an artist to do this kind of thing and not sound like a poor second. In this case this album makes these tunes new again. But like candy, I sure could use some more.....
I love this record. August 8, 2010
Scott Strayer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow.
This record is awesome. I got it my local Starbucks this morning and have been playing it all day long. I had no idea who Marc Cohn was when I bought the CD. It just looked like a CD I had to buy. Then I Wiki'd him and read that he did "Walking in Memphis", and thought "I like that song", but it never stuck with me who the artist was even after hearing it on the radio a million times.
I think this CD is fantastic. The liner notes say it all. I am Marc's age and am also a musician and this is the project that I would love to do if I had the time and money.
I was the same age as Marc when I heard these songs. God bless him for being to able to document his artistic tipping point and having the resources to do this. This is very good. I especially like his arrangement of "New Speedway Boogie."
Thanks Marc.
Easy to get stuck on... August 19, 2010
Sharon Rosen (Highland, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just had to chime in here -- from the first snippet I heard, I knew I'd have to buy this CD (and I rarely buy CD's these days). I am admittedly a Marc Cohn fan, and also a fan of John Leventhal; I love that man's musical sensibilities and am rarely disappointed. I actually looked forward to seeing John as much as his wife the times I've made it to a Rosanne Cash show!
Yes, these songs sound decidedly different from the originals; that's part of the beauty of covers, hearing another artist's interpretation of a song that they love. Cohn's voice is soulful and reverent, just now am hearing "Long as I Can See the Light" for the first time as I write and it is so heartbreaking it stopped me in my tracks. Now I'm looping back around to "Wild World" for a second full listen -- this is the one I was most uncertain about in my preview listening -- and the whole groove of it is making something new and fresh, while utterly, completely familiar.
This is a beautiful, fully thought out release --if you're ready to break out of the ordinary and fall in love all over again (or for the first time) with some classics, you're in for a treat!
'Covers' only by definition - 'Originals' by the depth of Marc's soul August 29, 2010
G. T. Arkhew (New York)
If Jackson Pollock decided to paint the Mona Lisa, it certainly wouldn't look like Leonardo's, but it probably would be an incredible work of art. The same applies to this set of songs put through a funk/r&b makeover by Marc Cohn. Some myopic, windbag reviewers complain these aren't like the original versions . . . duh! Marc Cohn's musical sensibilities can be trusted to make art, not copies, and that's what we have here. Wait 'til you hear the musical arrangements - they will reverberate in your head as if the original versions were never heard by you. Listen to Cohn's vocals - the infusion of soul takes these songs beyond ever being just 'covers'. In fact, I dare to say if these versions had been released first, they would have been hits before the originals made it to the charts. Way to go Marc! After your next album of new, stunningly brilliant music (I hope, I hope), let's move on to 1971 so I can hear you do "Maggie May". I got chills already.
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