Turtle's Dream

Abbey Lincoln - Turtle's Dream

Turtle's Dream
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Artist: Abbey Lincoln
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-06-06
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Throw It Away
  2. A Turtle's Dream
  3. Down Here Below
  4. Nature Boy
  5. Avec Le Temps
  6. Should've Been
  7. My Love Is You
  8. Storywise
  9. Hey, Lordy Mama
  10. Not To Worry
  11. Being Me

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Music Review: Glorious.
Rating: 5 Stars

I got this CD when I was about a year into my first real job, and it was exceedingly stressful and miserable -- the job, that is -- and this CD carried me through it. It is intensely and contagiously reflective, listening to this CD forced me out of my day-to-day drudgery and made me think about bigger, more significant things. After things cooled down at work I put it away for about 6 years. I just recently listened to it again and it still packs a wallop!

Miss Abbey was on some other stuff when she crafted this CD. She is the voice of experience and wisdom. There is nothing superficial about "A Turtle's Dream". She wrote most of the songs, and though they would be impressive sung by anyone, she invests each lyric with staggering pathos and clarity. Standouts are "Being Me", "Throw It Away" and the devastating title song. I love "Avec Le Temps" and I can't speak French so I have no idea what she's singing but it sounds so wonderful. Apparently, this song is a much-recorded French-language standard and I've been advised by one of my snotty French friends that Abbey's French diction is very coarse, but even he loves her version of the song. Also, she does a particularly noteworthy version of "Nature Boy". A pleasant pop standard in the hands of the great Nat "King" Cole, this song has since invited a number of loopy, idiosyncratic interpretations, but again Abbey sticks to the lyric and comes up with a real winner. In creating the mood, Lincoln is aided enormously by stellar musicians, most notably Rodney Kendrick, Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Roy Hargrove, and Julien Lourau. My one caveat would be that the CD is overwhelmingly melancholy -- not maudlin, just pensive. So it's not the best CD for a day at the beach.

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