Nancy LaMott - Listen to My Heart
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Artist: Nancy LaMottEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-12-12
Music Label: Midder Music
Soundtracks:
- Listen to My Heart
- It Feels Like Home
- The Lady Down the Hall
- Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?
- Not Exactly Paris
- We Can Be Kind
- I Got the Sun in the Morning
- Out of This World/So in Love
- The Secret O' Life
- The Summer Knows/Summer Me Winter Me
- Ordinary Miracles
- I'll Be Here With You
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Free Music Review: Still listening to this great heart.
Hit: 5 Stars
When Nancy LaMott recorded this album, her first with a full orchestra, she had already been diagnosed with the cancer which would take her life. Delaying surgery for a month so that she could record the album, a collection of intimate love songs, she sings with such simplicity, honesty, and passion for life that no one can doubt that Nancy intended this album to be her continuing legacy. Though she was always a great "saloon singer" and consummate actress with a song, this album is special. Here she sings directly to the heart of each listener, imbuing each song with a lasting message of love.
The three songs she sings by David Friedman, her long-time producer, are the most passionate and most personal. The soft orchestral introduction to "Listen to My Heart," full of strings and woodwinds, emphasizes her clear, soft vibrato and her ability to interpret lyrics as she asks you to listen to her heart, "Listen to it sing." She sings of spending her life "going one way to one dream," but then her voice becomes bigger, stronger, and louder and the accompaniment swells, and she announces triumphantly, "You're here and you're listening..." In "We Can Be Kind," also by Friedman, she asks "What can we do when there's nothing we can do," then answers, "We can be kind, we can take care of each other." In a strong, triumphant close, she asserts, "Together we can weather whatever tomorrow brings." In the final song on the album, "I'll Be Here with You," she sings almost as if the song is a lullaby, softly telling the listener, "Don't Be Afraid," assuring him that "whenever you need me, I'll be here with you...I'll keep you from harm," a message that now achieves particular poignancy.
The upbeat "I Got the Sun in the Morning" by Irving Berlin, with its tenor sax and piano, the assertive "Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?" by Johnny Mercer, and the stunning integration of Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen's "Out of this World" with Cole Porter's "So in Love" all take on new meaning in Nancy's hands. In the latter combination, she slows the tempo and sings "Out of This World" as a soft, mysterious ballad, accompanied by bass, guitar, harp, and strings, then uses a piano bridge into "So in Love," also with harp, and when she soars at the end into "I'm yours till I die," it's a "chicken skin" moment. The strength and purity of Nancy LaMott's voice and the control which allows her to give personal interpretations to old songs are at their peak in this album, the vibrant legacy of a strong woman and unforgettable "saloon singer." Mary Whipple
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