The Last Wild Place

Music Row Magazine, August 27, 2004
The whole album feels like a letter from an old friend.

Product Description:
"The Last Wild Place" is country diva Lacy J. Dalton's first move back to her singer-songwriter roots since leaving Nashville, and showcases Lacy’s remarkable voice and writing talents at their finest. This heartfelt music is acoustic-based Folk/Americana and ranges from the quiet introspective to the rollicking good time.

The Last Wild Place

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Average customer rating: A Fine Soundtrack of a Fine Movie Review(How original huh?) Music that transcends simple meaning...

A River Runs Through It Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Legends Of The Fall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack The Horse Whisperer: Original Score A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Dances with Wolves A River Runs Through It ASIN: B0007NFL54 Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

1. A River Runs Through It
2. Casting Presbyterian Style
3. A Land Filled With Wonder
4. Down The Alley (With You)
5. A Summer Of Lumber And Fishing
6. Shooting The Schutes
7. Three Fishermen
8. A Trip To The Unknown
9. A Four Count Rhythm
10. The Shiek Of Araby
11. Bye Bye Blackbird - Prudence Johnson
12. Je Ne Sais Quois
13. Swing Me High, Swing Me Low
14. A Place Remembered
15. A Remark Was Passed
16. Rugged Cross
17. Muskrat Ramble
18. Rawhide
19. The Wild Ride
20. Early Departure
21. The Splendor In The Grass
22. Jessie And Norman
23. Lolo's
24. The High Road
25. Yes, Quite A Day
26. A Fine Fisherman And The Big Blackfoot River
27. The Moment That Could Not Last
28. Too Deep For Tears
29. Without Complete Understanding
30. In The Half-Light Of The Canyon
31. Haunted By Waters - A River Runs Through It (Reprise)
32. Exclusive Interview With Mark Isham

Album Description

A River Runs Through It features Mark Isham's Grammy-and Academy Award-nominated score, plus the songs "The Sheik of Araby" written by Harry B. Smith, Ted Snyder & Francis Wheeler, "Bye Bye Blackbird" written by Mort Dixon & Ray Henderson, and "Muskrat Ramble" written by Ray Gilbert and Edward 'Kid' Ory.

Customer Reviews:

A Fine Soundtrack of a Fine Movie.......2007-07-15

I basically love the movie, because it's poetic along with Montana wilderness and I am a fly-fisherman. I have just bought this CD as my background music while I am tying flies. And it works very very well. Each track reminds me of each moment of the movie, especially, tracks from Track 25 "Yes, Quite a Day" to Track 31 "Hauted by Waters" just make me poignant. An exclusive interview with the composer is also very unique and worth to hear about the background of the movie. "The Moment That Could Not Last" last only 1:24, how about in our real life? Is it gonna be like Paul's? I am hautend by this soundtrack.

Review(How original huh?).......2007-01-25

Personally, this is one of the absolute BEST soundtracks I have ever listened to. The music is calming, soothing, and truly wonderful. The music is so well put together and nicely coordinated and I feel like I am watching the movie again...it also makes great to read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books too. Try it...you might be suprised how well it fits. :)

Music that transcends simple meaning..........2006-07-16

Mark Isham's score for the motion picture A River Runs Through It is one of the most memorable and emotionally captivating film scores of all time. The arrangements of strings, piano, woodwinds create a meditative and reflective range of music throughout the film capturing all the emotions of this powerful drama about an American family in rural Montana. It is at once deeply haunting, moving, nostalgic and sentimental and captures the innocence and beauty of nature and childhood, as well as darker themes of rebellion and tragedy. There is a profound sense of emotion that is embedded within the music that sweeps over me every time I hear it. A combination of happiness, sadness, excitement, and reflection. There is something simply sweeping and majestic within his music. I couldn't think of anything else that would better compliment the film. Highly recommended.

Average customer rating:

The Last Wild Place Anthology Lacy J. Dalton Manufacturer: Song Dog Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Chains on the Wind Lacy J. Dalton - Greatest Hits ASIN: B000H5U81O Release Date: 2006-07-25

Tracks:

1. Listen To The Wind
2. Heart of Hearts
3. The Wanderers
4. Old Dog Blue
5. The Alaska Song
6. Standin' Knee Deep
7. Slip Away
8. Little Boy Blue
9. The Last Wild Place
10. Sanctuary
11. She Could Run
12. Boundless Skies
13. Black Coffee
14. 16th Avenue
15. Crazy Blue Eyes
16. Takin' It Easy
17. Everybody Makes Mistakes

Product Description

"The Last Wild Place" is country diva Lacy J. Dalton's first move back to her singer-songwriter roots since leaving Nashville, and showcases Lacy’s remarkable voice and writing talents at their finest. This heartfelt music is acoustic-based Folk/Americana and ranges from the quiet introspective to the rollicking good time.

Album Description

She's one of the most instantly recognizable voices in music - the woman People Magazine called "Country's Bonnie Raitt." From the first time Lacy J. Dalton caught the public's ear, that soulful delivery, full of texture and grit, was a mainstay of country music. Lacy's early influences were the folk and rock sounds of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. This disc includes all of Last Wild Place, Lacy's first move back into her singer/songwriter roots since leaving Nashville, in addition to several of her biggest hit songs, including '16th Avenue' and 'Takin' It Easy'. The music is heartfelt, acoustic-based, Americana/Folk and ranges from quiet to rollicking fun!

Average customer rating: English is an asset and a drawback You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally! I love Carmen!

Carmen (Sung in English) Bizet , Bardon , Gavin , Plazas , Magee , and Parry Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mozart: The Magic Flute The Barber of Seville / B. Ford, D. Jones, A. Opie; G. Bellini [in English] Verdi: La Traviata Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Mozart - Don Giovanni / Garry Magee · Cullagh · Banks · Plazas · Shore · Tierny · PO · David Parry ASIN: B00007JGRN Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

1. Prelude
2. In The Plaza
3. Just Look At That Delicious Morsel
4. Here Come Our New Soldier Boys
5. Jose! There Was A Girl Here Looking For You Just Now
6. Off With You Old Soldier Boys
7. Corporal! Sir!
8. We Have Heard The Bell Summon Us To Meet Here
9. Ah, Just Look!
10. But Why Hasn't She Come, Our Carmencita?
11. Love's A Bird Wild As Any Rebel
12. Carmen! We Will Follow You High And Low!
13. The Cheek Of It!
14. Give Me News Of My Mother!
15. Your Dear Mother And I Were Leaving Church This Morning
16. I See My Mother's Face!
17. Wait A Moment - I'm Going To Read The Letter
18. Come And Help
19. So, Corporal: Tell Me What Happened
20. Well, Carmencita: What Do You Have To Say For Yourself?
21. Where Are You Taking Me?
22. There's An Old Bar In The City
23. Careful - It's Lieutenant!
24. Entr'acte
25. From Far Away Mysterious Sounds
26. Bravo, Bravo! More! Keep Dancing!
27. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
28. Who's That? It's Escamillo, The Bullfighter From Granada
29. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
30. You're Most Kind
31. We'll Come With You, Senor Torero
32. Toreador, Be Ready!
33. At Last! We Got Rid Of Them As Quickly As We Could
34. There's A Little Job That We're Starting!
35. Being In Love Is Not A Reason

Tracks:

1. To Bid You Welcome To Our Bar
2. La La La La La La La La...
3. Back To Camp!... Go At Once!
4. That Flow'r You Threw To Me I Treasured
5. No, It's Not Love At All!
6. Hello! Carmen!
7. Lieutenant Fair, It's True
8. The Sky Above The Open Road
9. Entr'acte
10. Keep Going, Dear Old Friend, Kep Going!
11. Right! Let's Stop For A While
12. Shuffle! Cut Them!
13. In Vain You Would Avoid The Bitter Things They're Saying
14. You're Back!
15. As For That Man, It Should Be Easy!
16. Is This The Place?
17. I Say That There's Nothing To Fear
18. It's Him! I'm Sure It's Him Over There!
19. Escamillo Is My Name, And I Come From Granada
20. She Had A Lover Here
21. Hola! Hola! Jose!
22. You Should Take Care, Carmen
23. Alas! Jose, Your Mother Is Ill
24. Entr'acte
25. A Few Cuartos! A Few Cuartos!
26. Here They Come! Here They Come!
27. If You Love Me, Carmen
28. It's You! It's Me!
29. Viva! Viva! What A Corrida!

Customer Reviews:

English is an asset and a drawback.......2004-07-20

The best thing about this recording of Carmen is the libretto. Conductor David Parry penned this facile and dramatic English translation. He avoids the pitfalls of literal translation to achieve an idiomatic flow that matches the rhythm of the original lyrics. I use this as a reference libretto for any of the French Carmens.

Unfortunately, the performance suffers from being sung in English. The singers declaim their parts with such proper British diction that Carmen comes across as a school marm. The spoken dialog is delivered beat for deliberate beat and is dripping with reverb. It makes the plaza, tavern and mountain pass all sound like a sewer pipe.

This is a good first Carmen for someone trying to understand the work. The libretto itself is a good investment for further listening. For an enjoyable performance with an emphasis on character and action, I recommend Regina Resnik on the London Double Decker set.

You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English.......2004-02-09

What a perfect introduction to opera. This newly released recording will surely get you hooked into opera. Carmen, a French opera by Georges Bizet, is the most recognizable and most popular in the opera world. It's famous melodies- the overture, the Habanera, The Toreador Song have all been featured in everything from cellular phone ring tones to Superbowl Commercial (last year's Superbowl with The "Opera In English" label has been making Italian operas into English for a number of years now. Also on the market are Verdi's La Traviata in English (with soprano Valerie Masterson as Violetta) Handel's Julius Caesar with Janet Baker and even Wagner's epic Ring Of The Nibeling sung in English. This is a terrific recording and I highly recommend it if you want to get into opera. Listen to this version first and then try the real, original French version Bizet had written. Patricia Bardon is sensational, sexy and dramatic as Carmen.

The real strength of this version is the dynamic drama. With the advantage of being sung in English, we get better insight on characters' emotions and motives, and we understand the drama a lot better. Carmen is all about great drama. Bizet drew the plot from the French writer Prosper Merimee's dark short story. Carmen is the ultimate femme fatale- a devil-may-care, sexy Gypsy living in Spain, seduces the conservatively raised soldier Don Jose, stealing him away from his fiancee, the passive Micaela, living a life of underground smuggling and rowdy taverns. "Habanera" and "The Gypsy Song and Dance" are very expressive of Carmen's extraordinarily liberal lifestyle. Don Jose, however, has fallen deeply in love- as he shows us in his song/aria "The Flower Song". But Carmen soon becomes tired of his constancy. Don Jose wants a committed, monogamous relationship with Carmen. But Carmen will not submit to love, since she is first and foremost a carnal creature. Eventually, she falls for the handsome Toreador Escamillo. Don Jose, consumed by jealousy, stabs Carmen at a bullfight after Carmen declares her love for Escamillo and rejects Don Jose's love. Don Jose's crazed, obscessive personality shines through in the English version as well. This tragedy has been done in English before so don't think this is the first time. Back in the 50's, there was a film, starring black actors "Carmen Jones" which was treated the same way as this opera- more like an English Broadway musical and with the dubbed singing voice of Marilyn Horne as Carmen. All in all, this recording is excellent.

A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!.......2003-09-17

This recording really sells "Carmen" as a drama. Although I have two other recordings of this opera and have seen it performed several times, it never quite worked for me dramatically. But thanks to the fine performances, conducting, and translation here, I've become a "Carmen" convert. Producing a good English-language performance of a foreign opera, especially a warhorse like "Carmen," is much more difficult than it might appear. You need performers who not only can sing the parts (of course) but also can sing *English* and make it halfway intelligible and make it sound like English and make it dramatically convincing to English-speakers. The singers on this recording do an excellent job all around. Don't be put off if you don't recognize their names -- they are up to the task musically and (especially) in their acting. Admittedly, as with *all* English-language recordings, some passages are very hard to understand without reading along, but most of the time the words are clear and effective. I would recommend this recording to any opera beginner or opera lover, even those who normally turn up their noses at performances in translation.

I love Carmen!.......2003-08-15

I do. I can think of no other opera with more melodic inventiveness, and few others with so sure a dramatic pulse. Carmen is popular and it thrills me to say that it is also a very good opera - not always true of popular things.

And what of this recording? Carmen sits well in English, so it is good to hear in translation, although some of the detais in the text jar. Escamillo refers to Jose as "my dear", which sounds rather peculiar, and the guide's line to Micaela: "it's not exactly inviting, is it?" sounds distinctly Middle England rather than Rural Spain. Some of the performers, not least Carmen herself, make the words work, although there are long tracts, especially with the chorus, where the language is distinctly indistinct.

The soloists are, by and large, strong. Patricia Bardon's deep, Handel-friendly voice adapts well to Carmen and she colours the music with phenomenal detail, sounding sexy and provocative from the start with an edge of pride and anger that emerges as the show goes on. She is out of her depth above the stave, though, and some extra top notes in the second act don't show her off to her best advantage. I have previously said that Julian Gavin is poorly served by recordings, though here he sounds much more even and gives a thrilling and musical performance (but his wooden spoken lines let him down). Mary Plazas is a lovely Micaela, rich-voiced and sincere (and word-perfect), but Garry Magee sounds miscast as Escamillo, lacking the ballast at the bottom of the voice to do justice to this tricky role.

The supporting cast is good (Mary Hegarty seems to do nothing but Frasquita these days!) but the really treasurable thing is the conducting. Stepping out of Italian Ottocento, David Parry turns his hand to this French Comedie with an appropriate lightness of touch. His pacing and handling of the set pieces is exemplary and the enrtractes go with a real swing.

A pleasure, then, for the Carmen naive or a novelty for the Carmen-acquainted. I nearly wrote Carmen-weary - but I don't think it's possible.

Average customer rating: still the same old Lacy J her life's work Lacy strikes again! You won't be sorry....

The Last Wild Place Lacy J. Dalton Manufacturer: Song Dog Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lacy J. Dalton - Greatest Hits Out of the Ashes Pure Country Janie Fricke/Lacy J. Dalton Chains on the Wind ASIN: B0002TUUAY Release Date: 2004-07-15

Tracks:

1. Listen to the Wind
2. Heart of Hearts (Stay Open)
3. The Wanderers
4. Old Dog Blue
5. The Alaska Song (Under the Midnight Sun)
6. Standin' Knee Deep
7. Slip Away
8. Little Boy Blue
9. The Last Wild Place
10. Sanctuary
11. She Could Run
12. Boundless Skies

Album Description

"The Last Wild Place" is country diva Lacy J. Dalton's first move back to her singer-songwriter roots since leaving Nashville, and showcases Lacy's remarkable voice and writing talents at their finest. This heartfelt music is acoustic-based Folk/Americana and ranges from the quiet introspective to the rollicking good time.

Customer Reviews:

still the same old Lacy J.......2006-11-06

Lacy J. Dalton is pitching away like always in "The Last Wild Place," by which she means Alaska, or anywhere else that has some element remaining untouched by man. Her voice remains as compelling as always, and the approach to the songs is clean. For a fan of Country, this album will be unsatisfying, without enough twang or irony to provide the edge that sells the genre. But any John Denver fan will love this album. I think she's reached a postion where she does not have to care about commercial success, and that will pay dividends in the quality of her product, as time goes on. Lacy J. is going down the track that James Talley did. This one is a little self-indulgent and whiny, but I expect to see that refined as she continues.

her life's work.......2005-07-28

Here it is! Here's what you all knew Lacy J. Dalton could be if Nashville would have let her. This is the culmonation of a lifetime's work and it's a brilliant classic. Five stars, heck, make it seven!!

Lacy strikes again!.......2005-02-02

This cd shows off the depth of this wonderful songstress;for some unknown reason her play time is limited and that is a real shame as this music will give endless hours of great country listening.Lacy continues to be one of the greatest female country artists and hopefully she continues to record and perform in the future-highly recommend this entertaining cd.

You won't be sorry...........2004-11-25

I purchased this CD before it even came out. Lacy J. Dalton has been my favorite female country singer for many years. I believe this may be her best album ever! Listen to the Wind, Heart of Hearts, Standin' Knee Deep, Slip Away and Sanctuary are my favorites, but all 12 cuts are really good. This lady can really sing and her band can really play! You won't be sorry if you purchase this CD! There is nothing else out there like it. Lacy is really one of a kind, with the most distinctive voice in the industry.

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