Letter to Home [Import]

Product Description:
UK reissue of the Rhinestone Cowboy's 1984 Atlantic album that is currently out of print domestically. 10 tracks including, 'I'll Be Faithfull To You' and '(Love Always) Letter To Home'.

Letter to Home,Glen Campbell,Wea International,Adult Contemporary,Country,Country & Western,Country-Pop,Country/Bluegrass,Pop,Urban Cowboy

Average customer rating: The definition of Musical Genius Epistolary reflections on Costellian themes... Beauty? Truth? You Can't Handle Either!! Deep and moving music from Elvis Costello. Give it a Try

The Juliet Letters Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Baroque Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: For the Stars North Brutal Youth All This Useless Beauty When I Was Cruel ASIN: B000002MI4 Release Date: 1993-01-19

Tracks:

1. Deliver Us
2. For Other Eyes
3. Swine
4. Expert Rites
5. Dead Letter
6. I Almost Had A Weakness
7. Why?
8. Who Do You Think You Are?
9. Taking My Life In Your Hands
10. This Offer Is Unrepeatable
11. Dear Sweet Filthy World
12. The Letter Home
13. Jacksons, Monk And Rowe
14. This Sad Burlesque
15. Romeo's Seance
16. I Thought I'd Write To Juliet
17. Last Post
18. The First To Leave
19. Damnation's Cellar
20. The Birds Will Still Be Singing

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Good on Elvis for risking the ridicule of a blinkered pop world with this unprecedented (for him, certainly, and most anyone short of Kurt Weill) and quite lovely album of bitchy, wise, and funny art songs accompanied by strings. His freshest, most evolved work in years. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

The definition of Musical Genius.......2007-05-22

If/when this ever is reprinted you MUST purchase it. It is beautiful in ways that I can't describe. For a writer/musician who is known for writing some amazing pieces, this is his pinnacle.

You will sob. You will laugh. You will rage. You will be haunted.

From a purely musical perspective, when you listen to this CD you are in the presence of great genius.

Listen to it alone, at least at first. Listen in the dark and let the imagery flow over you like fog.

Epistolary reflections on Costellian themes..........2006-01-16

Elvis Costello (Declan MacManus) has done his fair share of collaborations in the past decade. From the Grammy-award winning project with Burt Bacharach in 1998 to 2001's subdued "For the Stars" with Anne-Sophie von Otter Costello has branched out from his rock roots in diverse directions. "The Juliet Letters" from 1993 was the first in a long line of such collaborations. Costello and the Brodsky Quartet were brought together by mutual appreciation (Costello went to Brodsky Quartet concerts while the Brodsky Quartet attended Costello concerts). And Costello's now ex-wife Cait O'Riordan provided the epistolary theme for the project. She spotted a newspaper article about a professor that responded to letters addressed to "Juliet Capulet". Costello then presented the article to the quartet for inspiration. The group of five ended up writing all of the music and words (though much of the music is credited to "MacManus"). The results fall somewhere between classical song cycles and Beatle-inspired "string rock" (a la "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby"). Feelings of melancholy and anger pervade most of the songs. The strings punctuate these feelings perfectly. Fans of Costello's rock music probably won't find much to appreciate here. But the album contains many of the same classic Costello themes and vocal styles utilized in his rock.

Like a Richardson novel, letters provide the basis for the project. Failed and frustrated relationships abound. "Thank you for the flowers / I threw them on the fire / And I burned the photographs that you had enclosed / GOD they were ugly children" Costello sings venemously on the driving "I Almost Had a Weakness". After all, nothing seeps loneliness more than an unanswered love letter. But more than love gets the treatment here. Other songs include a suicide note ("Dear Sweet Filthy World"), a letter from a soldier to a stranger ("I Thought I'd Write to Juliet"), a bizarre experiment in selective exhumation ("Damnation's Cellar"), a reflection on separation ("Why?"), and a letter full of hope in the face of despair ("The Birds Will Still Be Singing"). Many songs explore the sad one-sided nature of letter writing. And no song responds to any other song. This fills the songs that deal with ineffable questions with an almost desparing isolation. But not everything is doom and gloom. "This Offer is Unrepeatable" picks up the mood with a humorously exaggerated letter from a scam artist (and it more than a little resembles the Tom Waits' classic "Step Right Up"). The final song injects some hope into the stark themes in the manner of "Old Man River": "Banish all dismay / Extinguish every sorrow / If I'm lost or I'm forgiven / The birds will still be singing". So in the end, things aren't as bad as they seem. The world goes on regardless of our ephemeral concerns. And as long as the world goes on hope exists.

This CD contains a lot of very beautiful and moving music. Two violins, a viola, a violincello, and voice provide all of the instrumentation. Costello branched out into something very different here. And not all of his fans appreciated it. Regardless, in retrospect "The Juliet Letters" pointed to the future. This year Costello will tour orchestra halls. Not only that, he also wrote a full orchestral score ("Il Sogno"). Strings appear more frequently in his recent music. And year by year he seems to embrace "classical" music more intensely. Still, he hasn't abandoned rock and pop (as "When I Was Cruel" and "The Delivery Man" testify). Though this early collaboration remains somewhat underappreciated, it nonetheless fully showcases Elvis Costello's diverse, adaptable, and broad musical scope. Costello will doubtless appear somewhere on the list of accomplished twentieth and twenty-first century musicians.

Beauty? Truth? You Can't Handle Either!!.......2006-01-06

The reason the Costello/Brodsky collaboration "Juliet Letters" is such a difficult listen is also why its the MOST SINGULARLY BRILLIANT ALBUM IN THE ENTIRE ELVIS COSTELLO DISCOGRAPHY! And this declaration is coming from a man who could write a thesis on "Armed Forces" and "Imperial Bedroom" in his sleep! The idea of setting "letters" to music has certainly been done before, but Costello sticks his neck out, both as a composer and singer in ways he'd never done before. Accompanying yourself with just a string quartet (no snarling guitars or euphonious keyboard filigrees,) is the surest way to test your mettle as a vocalist. And sure, sometimes Costello's voice isn't exactly the strongest, but like say, Billie Holliday it always seems to occur precisely when the lyric calls for it: check out "Who Do You Think You Are?" or "The Birds Will Still Be Singing" and you'll hear exactly what I mean. Even his ode to a chain letter, "This Offer Is Unrepeatable" serves up a cheeky bit of satire worthy of "Three Penny Opera." Of course, you can only experience this album sporadically - could anyone watch "Death Of A Saleman" or "Long Day's Journey Into Night" repeatedly without losing one's mind? Emotionally-wrought exercises like "Letters" take a lot out of you, even when you're merely the observer (or listener,) rather than the participant. But that's what makes the journey, however bittersweet, one worth taking.

Deep and moving music from Elvis Costello........2005-06-18

The Juliet Letters is a moving colaboration from Elvis Costello and the Brodsky String Quartet. His deep vocals are complemented by the string quartet. This album is
neither fish nor fowl (classical or pop) it's just a musical
exercise. The strings are some of my favorite compositions,
(viola, cello and violin). Elvis Costello not only got the Brodsky Quartet a bigger audience but he inspired them to
write their own music (a third of the songs are composed by the Quartet).

While it might not be everyones cup of tea, the music is brilliant and Elvis reaches octave levels I thought I would never imagine he could ever attain. Maybe sometime in the near future he'll work with them again. I applaud him for taking such a bold step in making a non-commercial album.

Highly recommended.

Give it a Try.......2004-03-03

I've been listening to a lot of Philip Glass and Steve Reich lately,and its caused me to go back to this album to give it another go.Previously I thought that it was an interesting experiment which hadn't worked out very well.Now I think that it is a good album for rockers and classical music lovers to use to stretch their ears a little.So called crossover albums are usually horrifying-does anyone else remember that album that Procol Harum did with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra? Elvis flatly denounces the concept in the liner notes.And not everything on this album works.It isn't the brilliant work that some of the other reviewers seem to think that it is.But it is a worthwhile experiment and a work that should be given a fair chance.Rockers and classical music lovers tend to be snobbish and dismissive of one another.This is a good work for them to live with for a while.When Elvis and the Brodsky's click-on "Jackson Monk and Rowe" or "Romeos Seance"-the results are as beautiful and valid as anything either of them have ever done.
Three stars because some of this simply doesn't work. But this is a work anyone who likes Elvis or the Brodsky's should have in their collection.

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Emily Dickinson in Song: Dwell in Possibility Manufacturer: Gasparo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Hoiby, Lee | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Larsen, Libby | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Grand Larsen-y: Vocal Music of Libby Larsen Mystery: Songs of Lori Laitman Lori Laitman: Becoming a Redwood Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature ASIN: B00029LNV4 Release Date: 2004-06-29

Average customer rating: Relaxing guitar Not Relaxing

Breathe: The Relaxing Guitar Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Maxwell Davies, Peter | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Respighi | Respighi, Ottorino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tarrega | Tarrega, Francisco | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Breathe: The Relaxing Strings Breathe: The Relaxing Piano Breathe: The Relaxing Harp Breathe: Relaxing Music from the Movies British Guitar Music ASIN: B0007D4MJK Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

1. Farewell to Stromness
2. Prelude No. 1 in C from The Well-Tempered Clavier
3. Fragile
4. Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez
5. Siciliana from Ancient Airs and Dances
6. Cuban Landscape with Rain
7. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
8. Capricho Arabe
9. Prelude from Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Violoncello
10. Sarabande from Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Violincello
11. Letter from Home
12. Cavatina from The Deer Hunter

Album Description

Slow down and take a deep breath, and enjoy the first in a series of wonderful relaxing recordings. Just the thing to provide a welcome interlude of quiet in an otherwise hectic world. Breathe: the Relaxing Guitar is a collection of beautiful works played by several of today's most gifted and acclaimed classical guitarists including David Russell, Angel Romero and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

Customer Reviews:

Relaxing guitar.......2007-05-07

I bought this CD especially for "Farewell to Stromness," a piece written by knighted Peter Maxwell Davies, transcribed for guitar by Timothy Walker, and performed by David Russell. The piece is of a Scottish folktune, and written as part of a successful grass-roots resistence to the potential destruction of the picturesque town of Stromness in the Orkney islands in Scotland. The resistence movement was titled "The Yellow Cake Review"--the yellow cake was a reference to a uranium open-pit mining that was planned next to the town. The rest of the CD is a wonderful collection of 20 pieces played by Russell, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Pepe (?or Angel)Romero, and others, covering Bach. Sting (!) and others, and ending with Stanley Myers "Cavatina," the now well-known background music for the "Deerhunter."

Not Relaxing.......2005-09-16

I didn't like the cd. It was not relaxing at all!!

Average customer rating: GREAT NEWER BLUEGRASS

Letter to Home IIIrd Tyme Out Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Erase the Miles John & Mary Grandpa's Mandolin Puttin' New Roots Down 3rd Tyme Out ASIN: B0000002MU Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

1. Can't Say Goodbye
2. Letter To Home
3. Broken Hearted Lover
4. New Faces In The Field
5. Raining In L.A.
6. Only You (And You Alone)
7. My Little Home In Tennessee
8. Cabin Creek Stone Mill Dam
9. Tobacco Jack
10. Troubled Mind
11. Daydreams
12. You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down

Customer Reviews:

GREAT NEWER BLUEGRASS.......2002-06-23

I LOVE THE SONG "NEW FACES IN THE FIELD" (BECAUSE I CAN RELATE TO THE LYRICS SO WELL). THESE GUYS ARE WONDERFUL, THOUGH GREATLY UNDERATED.

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Take Your Time Manufacturer: Lovely Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Computer | Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000A4G6K Release Date: 2003-07-29

Tracks:

1. Song No. 1 "Reset," from The Driver's Son, take one
2. Remember to Say This
3. The Drifter, free reading
4. A Letter from Home, the harmonic branching
5. Wish I Had Said That (L'Esprit de l'escalier)
6. Song No. 1, from The Driver's Song, take two
7. Meditation: Nothing's Changed, Everything's Changed
8. Study for Song No. 34, "Empathy," from The Driver's Son
9. Spirit

Album Description

A CD of works for solo piano. "Thirty-five of the 36 songs in this 'audio storyboard' are individually built around an atmospheric primary chord, counter-rhythms, and a body of notes which creates a potential melody that unfolds bit by bit. 'The Driver's Son' is scored for a narrator, a chorus of 5 people creating 15 voices, an electronically modified orchestra of folk and concert instruments and parts for a lighting designer and a live video animator known as The Guide. The realization for electro-magnetically stimulated piano (1993) heard here employs feedback circuit devices, designed by composer David Meschter, that initiate subtle sustaining tones when placed on the strings. The slowly appearing, ethereal sounds in this piece are 'artificial harmonics' that resonate high in the piano strings when one chord is silently depressed and another chord of the same form but a half-step lower is loudly struck and quickly released. 36 of these, interlaced with 36 'natural harmonics,' were recorded and then the initial loud attack was removed with computer editing. This procedure left a bed of subtle, non-corporeal sounds that seem to lie on the surface of the strings like a cloud, and allowed listeners to hear sounds that normally are only perceived by the pianist sitting a few feet away from the strings."

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Air Power/Holocaust Suite Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dello Joio, Norman | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Morton Gould | Gould, Morton | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001SDE Release Date: 1993-05-14

Tracks:

1. Introduction And Main Theme
2. Parade Of The Daredevils
3. Skylarking
4. The Sport Meet
5. Alert
6. Take Off
7. Air Battle
8. Safe Return
9. March Of The German Legions
10. The Lonely Pilot's Letter Home
11. Russian Soldier Dance
12. Convoy And Wolf Pack Attack
13. Japanese Prayer To Victory
14. The American Liberators
15. Main Theme
16. Crystal Night
17. Berta And Joseph's Theme
18. Babi Yar
19. Warsaw Ghetto Surrender And Finale
20. Elegy

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Psychographic Diaries and Field Studies : 19 Songs Written Between 1999-2001 The Encaustics Manufacturer: Home Sweet Home Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000067DLK Release Date: 2001-12-14

Tracks:

1. beveled edges for a perfect fit
2. two significant lines
3. business meeting with a journalist mother
4. hotel room
5. about a family in san antonio
6. emily's birthday
7. painful posture for a teenage brat
8. oh, lord
9. awkward morning after an alcoholic scandal 1
10. letter to lover
11. asian couple trying to waltz 1,2
12. a possibility
13. 1984
14. emily
15. awkward morning after an alcoholic scandal 2
16. temporary residence of dreams 1, 2
17. indiana girl

Album Description

a collection of songs about beer, family structure, birthday parties, abortion clinics, and other social indequacies.

"This project serves as a candid outlet for the grim reality of everyday sentiments from hotel rooms and morning afters to nostalgic memories of heartache- without a trace of sappiness." Wonka Vision Magazine May/June 2002

Customer Reviews:

[review].......2002-07-04

Pretty good for a debut (?) cd. I tried it out because I saw them play a show in Lancaster PA some time ago. My friend went to college with the singer guy :) They were amazing live though..probably one of the loudest bands I've heard. I don't think this cd is indicative of their live sound, but still a tasteful collection of songs. It's hard to say what kind of style or genre they fall into exactly. I'm interested to hear other material if they have any.

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Letter Home Manufacturer: Gina Gonzalez ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA76F0 Release Date: 2004-07-13

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COUNTRY CLASSICS VOLUME TWO / 24 Song CD Import / 1999 / Tammy Wynette-Stand By Your Man, Frankie Laine-Rawhide, Willie Nelson-Home Is Where You're Happy, Dolly Parton-Letter To Heaven, Faron Young-It's Four In The Morning, Kenny Rogers-Me And Bobby McGee, Bobby Bare, Barbara Fairchild, Ed Bruce, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker, Dottie West, Lynn Anderson, George Jones and Others Various Artists ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000QZ36VY

Product Description

COUNTRY CLASSICS VOLUME TWO / 24 Song CD Import / 1999 / Tammy Wynette-Stand By Your Man, Frankie Laine-Rawhide, Willie Nelson-Home Is Where You're Happy, Dolly Parton-Letter To Heaven, Faron Young-It's Four In The Morning, Kenny Rogers-Me And Bobby McGee, Bobby Bare, Barbara Fairchild, Ed Bruce, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker, Dottie West, Lynn Anderson, George Jones and Others

Average customer rating: Fits into today's situation.

Letter to Home Glen Campbell Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000008DYB Release Date: 1991-03-19

Tracks:

1. I'll Be Faithful to You
2. (Love Always) Letter to Home
3. Faithless Love
4. Leavin' Eyes
5. Goodnight Lady
6. After the Glitter Fades
7. Tennessee
8. Lady Like You
9. Scene of the Crime
10. American Trilogy

Album Description

UK reissue of the Rhinestone Cowboy's 1984 Atlantic album that is currently out of print domestically. 10 tracks including, 'I'll Be Faithfull To You' and '(Love Always) Letter To Home'.

Customer Reviews:

Fits into today's situation........2001-12-02

The title track involves someone who is away from home and has to deal with a situation.

With the current international activity, this song is most proper. I suggest buying the album and then sending a dub to the US Troops in Afghanistan.

"Love Always (Letters to Home)"...a great song to share.

The original radio release in '85 had a six-string sound. The album cut has a definate 12-string guitar sound. Ain't remixing grand?

In a short sentence?...a good buy. Enjoy.

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1. Little by Little
2. Little Good News
3. Live and Still Standing [Live]
4. Live Wire
5. Local Flowers
6. Misery Loves Company
7. More Songs of Route 66: Roadside Attractions
8. My Favorites of Hank Williams
9. Nashville/Boogity Boogity
10. Nights When I Am Sane

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