After Ours

About the Artist
A sometimes lonely piano, an empty feeling of loss in the vocals, a little bit of cold weather, and a couple of whiskey sours make this Chicago Quintet a little different than the rest of those bands wearing their hearts out - and on their sleeves. This band is not an average "heart on your sleeve" -type band in any sense. The piano and the hard hitting drums keep the rhythm deadly accurate, heavy, and driving - the intricate guitars - and at times, loud and overdriven - slap you in the face and reach into your stomach on some of the chunkier parts - the backing screams of Kris Murphy accenting Greg Calvert's vocals that at times remind you of a more recent Bob Nanna (more Hey Mercedes than Braid), and give this band more of a foot stomping, rather than head bobbing feel from other bands like Braid or Jimmy Eat World, and more of a heavier ROCK THE F-CK ON! A bit of guitar delay that reminisces of earlier U2, and opens up the songs exactly in the right places. The! songs focus on the here and now, riddled with uncertainty, the moment that you feel something, the moment that you want to call him or her up and tell him/her everything you ever thought about. Every time you ever wanted to get up and go, and never look back. Everything that you ever did wrong, and everything that you always wanted in this one person, and everything and every reason you should have walked away. One can imagine driving away on a rainy night to some unknown destination to get away from all that was ever wrong in your life. And maybe, just maybe this one person will come with you… and maybe this person is a part of the problem... the only thing you're sure of is that everything will be better when you get there with or without him or her... with or without those few drinks before you crash out in your new bed in your new city...

Product Description
This Chicago quintet combines the heartfelt vocal style of Greg Calvert, beautiful piano leads and fill of Andy Schach, the melodic, catchy, and angular guitar work of Matt Tapins and Chris Schach, and relentless rhythm and cut up timing of Brian Ulery and Kris Murphy (throwing in some killer backing vocals) to help the Chicago children out of their winter padding and into their summer fashions. Welcome to the jungle everybody. This 6 song EP focuses on the here and now, riddled with uncertainty, the moment that you feel something, the moment that you want to call him or her up and tell himher everything you ever thought about. Every time you ever wanted to getup and go, and never look back. Everything that you ever did wrong, and everything that you always wanted in this one person, and everything and every reason you should have walked away. One can imagine driving away on a rainy night to some unknown destination to get away from all that was ever wrong in your life. And maybe, just maybe this one person will come with you… and maybe this person is a part of the problem... the only thing you're sure of is that everything will be better when you get there with or without him or her... with or without those few drinks before you crash out in your new bed in your new city...

After Ours,The Silent Treatment,Lucid Records,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Absolutely beautiful.... Talent is not enough Sublime a worthy, if somewhat disjointed, effort smooth

After Ours Ann Hampton Callaway Manufacturer: Denon Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Easy Living To Ella with Love Bring Back Romance Ann Hampton Callaway Slow ASIN: B0000034QG Release Date: 1997-08-19

Tracks:

1. Time After Time
2. Teach Me Tonight
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Old Devil Moon
5. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
6. All Blues
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. The Music You Leave Inside My Mind
9. You Are My Sunshine
10. It Never Entered My Mind
11. Fallin In Love Again
12. Untitled Track

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely beautiful...........2007-04-16

I brought this CD based on how much I loved to hear her sing "The Music You Leave In My Mind". I listend to the entire CD and I really find it beautiful, romantic and relaxing. Perfect for candlelight dinner with that special person or for those melancholy days of tea and gray skies ;)

Talent is not enough.......2006-05-19

Hmm, Anne Hampton Calloway - yes just a lounge singer, in the end.

Vocal talent, yes! How to use it ? No! It takes more than talent to be an interperter and actual singer of this kind of music. See the still abysmal and failed effort of Linda Ronstadt and her singing of these types of tunes, ouch!

What is missing here is a total lack of commitment to the song from one's very being. You gotta feel em!! And if you are not willing to risk your own experiences in front of an audience be it live or on audio, forget it - you come up with an emptiness and the audience gets nothing.

What a mess! When singers such as this one actually starts believing in her good reviews, boy are we in trouble.


LIRIO

Sublime.......2004-02-10

Ann Hampton Callaway is so good, so naturally gifted, so willfully perfect that the main challenge she must face is to scale back her talents sufficiently to make them accessible to the listening public. Even though this album, down to the omission of a trap drummer, evokes Sarah Vaughan's "After Hours," the approach is at once more understated and calculated than that on Sassy's session. I had mixed feelings about Ann's earlier album, "Ann Hampton Callaway"--frequently energizing and inspiring but also overwhelming and overscored.

On "After Hours" the accompaniment doesn't get in the way or become redundant, and Ann seems less to "perform" ballads like "Valentine" and "It Never Entered My Mind" than to "breathe" them, infusing them with new life and welcome fresh perspectives. The latter song, which has overmatched many a singer (Sinatra and Carmen McRae are the striking exceptions), is a stunner. On the crucial phrase, "scratch my back myself," Ann makes it work not through seamless continuity (Sinatra) or onomatopoeia (Carmen) or the tempting "big crescendo" but through daring melodic choices and a willingness to let a couple of her notes hang naked, unsupported by the reassuringly sumptuous timbres of which she is capable.

A performance such as this (Jack Jones' recent musical tribute to Tony Bennett is another) should be ineligible for "stars" awarded by unknowing listeners like me. Music of this order judges the listener more than vice versa.

a worthy, if somewhat disjointed, effort.......2001-11-28

Anytime one tackles the "standards", the challenge is to bring something "new" to a recording and yet maintain the integrity of what made the song a standard to begin with. And just like some cable stations use the same word "classic" to describe movies like "Top Gun" (versus say, "To Kill a Mockingbird"), there is a danger in mixing songs of varying vintages.

I've seen Ann Hampton Callaway perform here in St. Louis, and it is not a criticism to say she is a very fine lounge singer. This effort shows her strengths in that area, though I found this release to be good, not great. Her rendition of "Old Devil Moon" is quite good, and I am trying to figure out how other reviewers could be so harsh in their assessments given this and tracks like "My Funny Valentine"- certainly, these interpretations can't be too disappointing versus the other renditions in existence.
On the other hand, some of the material and the "flow" of the album if you will, do seem to disappoint when placed next to some of the better tunes. "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" is well done, but I'm not so sure it doesn't make most people think of going out and getting Roberta Flack's benchmark rendition On the other hand, her take on Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" takes the song right out of its MTV 80's sound and puts it squarely into a heartfelt grown-up-jazz singer context. And,I can still put on Calloway's "Old Devil Moon" next to Sinatra's and it doesn't suffer for it.

Bottom line: If you are looking for alternative renditions along the line of Cassandra Wilson, you will be disappointed. If you want an end-to-end run of undeniable standards, you'll be disappointed. But, if you want a collection of popular music sung by a singer with more vocal talent than most of the women you hear on radio today, you will find several nuggets on this that release that make it well worth its purchase.

smooth.......1999-11-30

I enjoyed this CD very much. It's sound is smooth and easy, reminiscent of the torch singers in the 40's.

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Average customer rating: Very good

After Ours The Silent Treatment Manufacturer: Lucid Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000297VPQ Release Date: 2003-08-01

Tracks:

1. A Sorry Excuse
2. Please Be Careful
3. Action Roads
4. Momentary (Thanks for the Risef)
5. Getaway
6. Fear of Falling

Album Description

This Chicago quintet combines the heartfelt vocal style of Greg Calvert, beautiful piano leads and fill of Andy Schach, the melodic, catchy, and angular guitar work of Matt Tapins and Chris Schach, and relentless rhythm and cut up timing of Brian Ulery and Kris Murphy (throwing in some killer backing vocals) to help the Chicago children out of their winter padding and into their summer fashions. Welcome to the jungle everybody. This 6 song EP focuses on the here and now, riddled with uncertainty, the moment that you feel something, the moment that you want to call him or her up and tell himher everything you ever thought about. Every time you ever wanted to getup and go, and never look back. Everything that you ever did wrong, and everything that you always wanted in this one person, and everything and every reason you should have walked away. One can imagine driving away on a rainy night to some unknown destination to get away from all that was ever wrong in your life. And maybe, just maybe this one person will come with you… and maybe this person is a part of the problem... the only thing you're sure of is that everything will be better when you get there with or without him or her... with or without those few drinks before you crash out in your new bed in your new city...

Customer Reviews:

Very good.......2005-03-10

I really liked this album. I saw the band at a small hookah bar here in Champaign, Illinois, bought both albums, and now they are constantly on my rotation. They have a really funky Mars Volta-meets-punk-rock-meets-totally-chill vibe. I am a fan. Definitely worth buying.

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After Ours Johanna Stahley Manufacturer: Johanna Stahley ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAA1TI Release Date: 2003-04-08

Tracks:

1. There Is Life (After Ours)
2. Outside
3. Two
4. Too Happy
5. Like We Used To

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