Though his masterful 1989 debut, Killin' Time, had once placed him neck and neck with Garth Brooks in the running for Nashville's most important New Traditionalist, Clint Black never made music that sounded as muscular or inspired. At times--his 1990 follow-up, Put Yourself in My Shoes, for instance--you could hear his wheels turn, as if he were trying too hard to do something that once came easy. However, on Spend My Time, his first album in nearly four years and the debut release for Equity (where Black is a partner), the stylish Texan takes full responsibility for everything--writing every tune, producing the disc, and letting his musicians stretch out in free-range solos. On the whole, he's more reflective than usual, taking stock of the fact that he's no longer a young gunslinger ("Spend My Time") and admitting that he's still smarting about his tumble from grace ("We All Fall Down"). Black still occasionally comes up with a bumbling, empty lyric ("All I need is everything I want"), something that has long marred his work. But he also conjures some of the most beautiful and wistful love songs of his career. If his days as a Number One hit maker are over, in the soaring ballads "My Imagination" and "Just Like You and Me" he proves he's only now really exploring his limits as an artist. --Alanna Nash
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Limited edition, first 700 copies are signed by the artist.
Spend My Time,Clint Black,Equity Music Group,762186016700,Contemporary Country,Country,Country & Western,Pop
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Spend My Time
Clint Black Manufacturer: Equity Music Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00019JQ28 Release Date: 2004-03-02 |
Tracks:
- Spend My Time
- We All Fall Down
- My Imagination
- She's Leavin'
- Everything I Need
- What Ever Happened
- A Mind To
- Just Like You And Me
- The Boogie Man
- Someone Else's Tears
- Haywire
- A Lover's Clown
Product Description
1. Spend My Time
2. We All Fall Down
3. My Imagination
4. She's Leavin'
5. Everything I Need
6. What Ever Happened
7. A Mind To
8. Just Like You And Me
9. The Boogie Man
10. Someone Else's Tears
11. Haywire
12. A Lover's Clown
Format: CD
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Though his masterful 1989 debut, Killin' Time, had once placed him neck and neck with Garth Brooks in the running for Nashville's most important New Traditionalist, Clint Black never made music that sounded as muscular or inspired. At times--his 1990 follow-up, Put Yourself in My Shoes, for instance--you could hear his wheels turn, as if he were trying too hard to do something that once came easy. However, on Spend My Time, his first album in nearly four years and the debut release for Equity (where Black is a partner), the stylish Texan takes full responsibility for everything--writing every tune, producing the disc, and letting his musicians stretch out in free-range solos. On the whole, he's more reflective than usual, taking stock of the fact that he's no longer a young gunslinger ("Spend My Time") and admitting that he's still smarting about his tumble from grace ("We All Fall Down"). Black still occasionally comes up with a bumbling, empty lyric ("All I need is everything I want"), something that has long marred his work. But he also conjures some of the most beautiful and wistful love songs of his career. If his days as a Number One hit maker are over, in the soaring ballads "My Imagination" and "Just Like You and Me" he proves he's only now really exploring his limits as an artist. --Alanna NashCustomer Reviews:
Shouldn't Clint Black "Spend [more of his] Time" in Iraq?.......2005-09-10
If Black wants to support pResident Bush's unprovoked, pointless, unpardonably bloody attack on Iraq--which, lest we forget, is completely unconnected to the September 11, 2001, attacks upon the Pentagon and the World Trade Center--I suppose it's still a free country, for some people. However, Black's time would be better served frequently entertaining the U.S. forces dying each day in Iraq. And his songfests should take place in the battle zones, not in the cozy environs of the Pentagon, to pre-registered, pre-screened, pre-searched marchers. Or Black could donate the proceeds from this album, and a sizable chunk of his considerable personal fortune, to help ensure that our fighting men and women have the adequate body armor and the fully equipped Humvees they too often lack, which conveniently protect the men who send other people's children to die. Or even--heavens to Betsy!--Clint could volunteer to fight alongside our children! He's certainly young and fit enough...
Alhough Amazon.com says it prefers that we "focus [our] comments on the product," in this case the product is inextricably linked to the obscenity of allowing only PRE-SCREENED AND NUMBERED participants to hear him perform his latest tunes at an event that is free publicity for this CD. Our names will remain in the property of the Department of Defense. We wouldn't find that if Clint Black's fans paid to see him at the nearby Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, or to hear any performer at the annual July 4th concerts on the mall!
Nobody else has yet been touted as a fellow performer. Do they know something that Clint Black fails to notice? Does he know that Secretary of Defense [sic] Donald Rumsfeld has been photographed, grinning, while selling weapons to Saddam Hussein, back when he was considered a relatively harmless (or merely lucrative) buddy of the GOP?
Or is it just that most "Lay-Z-Boy-warrior" supporters of this war prefer to do so in in comfort and in a super-safe environment...?
Great Voice, Excellent Instrumentals.......2005-08-01
Excellent cd ''spend my time'' of Clint Black.......2004-11-19
Haunting Turn for the Young Man in Black.......2004-07-08
+3/4 -- Black's voice is more moving than his material.......2004-04-14
Entering his forties with a wife and child, Black contemplates the changing priorities of middle-age ("Spend My Time") as well as his own human frailties ("We All Fall Down"). The latter sports a soulful mix of organ, piano harmonica, banjo and John Robinson's terrific staccato second-line drumming; the extended instrumental coda is especially fine. Robinson's drumming returns to drive the paranoid dot-com futurism of "Haywire," and Black maintains a blusey mid-tempo punch with "Everything I Need" and "The Boogie Man." The album's ballads are a more mixed lot. A few make original, personal turns, like the introspective title track and the theatrical "A Lover's Clown." Others slip into Nashville-bland melodies and lyrics.
It's a treat to hear Black integrating jazz, blues and funk flavors so effortlessly into his mid-tempo songs, and to discover how richly his voice fits a variety of moods and tones. His criticism of major label conventions and his cash on the barrelhead are brave, confident moves; whether or not he finds his way back to the charts, there's clearly a rich artistic future ahead.
3-3/4 stars, if allowed fractional ratings.
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Enclosure Two: Harry Partch
Manufacturer: INNOVA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000004AF9 Release Date: 2000-12-06 |
Tracks:
- I am Harry Partch - Harry Partch
- By the Rivers of Babylon - Harry Partch
- Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 1 - A Dream - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 2 - An Encounter in the Field - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 3 - On Hearing the Flute - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 4 - The Intruder - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 5 - I am a Peach Tree - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 6 - With a Man of Leisure - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 7 - A Midnight Farewell - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 8 - Before the Cask of Wine - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 9 - On the Ship of Spicewood - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 10 - By the Great Wall - Harry Partch
- The Use of English in Serious Music - Harry Partch
- Barstow - Eight Hitch-Hiker's Inscriptions. . . - Harry Partch
- San Francisco - Newsboy Cries - Harry Partch
- Life is too precious to spend it with important people - Harry Partch
- U. S. Highball - A Musical Account of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip - Harry Partch
- While my Heart Keeps Beating Time - Harry Partch
- San Francisco II - Harry Partch
Tracks:
- I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds - Harry Partch
- Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake: 1 - Isobel - Harry Partch
- Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake: 2 - Annah the Allmaziful - Harry Partch
- Dark Brother - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 1 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 2 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 3 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 4 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 5 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 6 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 7 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 8 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 9 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 10 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 11 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 12 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 13 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 14 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 15 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 16 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 17 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 18 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 19 - Harry Partch
Tracks:
- June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California - H. PARTCH
- June 12 - Federal Shelter, Stockton - H. PARTCH
- June 13 - H. PARTCH
- June 14 - H. PARTCH
- June 16 - Huntington Ranch, San Joaquin - H. PARTCH
- June 17 - H. PARTCH
- July 4 - H. PARTCH
- July 14 - H. PARTCH
- July 16 - H. PARTCH
- July 19 - H. PARTCH
- July 20 - Heading north, between Sacramento and Redding (Later incorporated into The Wind) - H. PARTCH
- July 24 - Federal Shelter, Portland - H. PARTCH
- July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington - H. PARTCH
- July 27 - H. PARTCH
- July 29 - H. PARTCH
- July 30 - H. PARTCH
- August 7 - Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon - H. PARTCH
- August 15 - H. PARTCH
- October 22 - Nearing Monterey (reworked in 1943 as The Letter) - H. PARTCH
- October 24 - Leaving Big Sur - H. PARTCH
- October 25 - Near Slate's Hot Springs (Now the Esalen Institute) - H. PARTCH
- October 26 - H. PARTCH
- October 27 - H. PARTCH
- October 28 - H. PARTCH
- October 29 - H. PARTCH
- October 30 - Big Creek - H. PARTCH
- November 12 - Santa Barbara - H. PARTCH
- November 14 - H. PARTCH
- November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara - H. PARTCH
- November 16 - Ojai - H. PARTCH
- November 17 - H. PARTCH
- November 23 - Los Angeles - H. PARTCH
- November 28 - H. PARTCH
- December 4 - H. PARTCH
- December, 1935 - H. PARTCH
- Feburary 1, 1936 - San Bernardino - H. PARTCH
Tracks:
- Yankee Doodle Birds - H. PARTCH
- Y.D. Fantasy - On the Words of an Early American Tune - H. PARTCH
- O Frabjous Day! - H. PARTCH
- You are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not drunk? - H. PARTCH
- Ring Around the Moon - A Dance Fantasm for Here - H. PARTCH
- Bless This Home - H. PARTCH
- Harrys Wake - H. PARTCH
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Enclosure 2, all four cds, is curated as a sprawling notebook filled with sounds and speech instead of sketches and words. Of any Partch recording extant, it gives the best picture of the man--as the curmudgeonly, extremely innovative misanthrope that he was, as the composer who was impossibly unlike anyone else before or since. The essence of Partch's music reflects the history of the world--from his particular perspective--the imaginings of ancient Greece to the influence of Chinese musical melodrama, all propelled by homemade instruments based on a 43-tone scale named things like the "Kithara" and the "Boo." These recordings also give the best sense of his philosophy of language in music. Lamenting the whole time how text in music had become detached from the language of everyday life, Partch ran music alongside newsboys' cries and hobos' diaries, following the forms, cadence, and dynamics of speech, rather than the other way around. From his juvenilia (a wonderful song he wrote at 18) to a 45-minute segment of his wake in 1974, the first steps towards exploring Partch's sparkling works fully are made here. --Robin Edgerton
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Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, Vol. 1
Manufacturer: Madacy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002LHZQ4 Release Date: 1994-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
- Jealousy
- Amapola
- Come Prima
- San Francisco
- Limelight
- La Vie En Rose
- Over The Rainbow
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
- Andalucia
- Sunrise, Sunset
- Anema E Core
- Malaguena
- Stardust
Product Description
1. Lovely way to Spend an Evening 2. Jealousy 3. Amapola 4. Come Prima 5. San Francisco 6. Limelight 7. La Vie en Rose 8. Over the Rainbow 9. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 10. Andalucia 11. Sunrise, Sunset; 12. Anema e Core 13. Malaguena 14. Stardust
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The Mantovani Orchestra
Manufacturer: St. Clair Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005YC5F Release Date: 2000-04-18 |
Customer Reviews:
The Real Thing.......2007-01-27
Fantastic Collection of Favorites!!!.......2003-07-02
You will NOT want to remove these GREAT CDs from your CD Player, once you have listened to them! They make "nice" background music for small get-togethers or "lovely" background music for those "ROMANTIC DINNERS", for you and your "SPECIAL SOMEONE"!!! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SET!!! It is a GREAT DEAL for the money, even at the full price!!!
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