Linda Thompson - Dreams Fly Away: A History Of Linda Thompson
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Artist: Linda ThompsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-07-02
Music Label: Hannibal
Soundtracks:
- Lonely Hearts
- Walking On A Wire
- I Live Not Where I Love
- Sometimes It Happens
- For Shame Of Doing Wrong
- Talking Like A Man
- Sisters
- Shay Fan Yan Ley
- One Clear Moment
- First Light
- Pavanne
- Many Dreams Must Fly Away
- I Want To See The Bright Light Tonight
- The Great Valerio
- Insult To Injury
- The Poor Boy Is Taken Away
- Blackwaterside
- Telling Me Lies
- I'm A Dreamer
- Dimming Of The Day
Music reviews of Dreams Fly Away: A History Of Linda Thompson
Music Review: Seventy-Eight Minutes of Grace and Elegance
Rating: 5 Stars
Cruising the internet, I've found many adjectives describing the voice of Linda Thompson: including reflective, passionate, bittersweet, gentle, organic, theatrical, elegant, earnest and melancholy. My least favorite description is "theatrical." Kate Bush is theatrical, Linda Thompson's delivery is far from melodramatic. My favorite description is "elegant." Perhaps it's her phrasing or High British accent, either way, the voice of Linda Thompson is one of the most graceful and elegant instruments on record. I see no point engaging in a frivolous "better than" argument. Better than Sandy Denny, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Natalie Merchant, Judy Collins, Margo Timmins? Nonsense. Whether Linda Thompson is at the top of the pile, in the middle, or at the bottom; does not diminish her admirable contribution to popular music (and neither does it deflate the stature of the other artists named).Solo, Linda Thompson is impressive. Working with her musical accomplice, Richard Thompson, Linda surpasses excellence into the realm of exalted. Linda and Richard are a musical marriage born in heaven: the majesty of their partnership is not one of commonality, but of contrast. Linda's grace and elegance opposes Richard's acerbic and gruff delivery. Their duets are an alluring mix of silk and sandpaper (Walking On A Wire, For Shame Of Doing Wrong).
I'm hesitant when buying CD compilations including previously unreleased material and outtakes. Often, "unreleased" material should have remained unreleased, and "outtakes" were deleted from the original albums for good reason: their inferior recordings. Not so here, executive producer Joe Boyd's selection is first rate: the quality of the material equals or surpasses the "real" stuff. All of Dreams Fly Away is tantalizing, but several tracks are a pleasant surprise. At odds with the expected British Folk-Rock is the lyrical perplexing synth-heavy "Talking Like A Man, " the bouncing Pop of "One Clear Moment", and the country slide-guitar touches on "Dimming Of The Day."
Dreams Fly Away may break your heart (Insult To Injury, Telling Me Lies, I'm A Dreamer), or transport you inside azure clouds of harmonic beauty (I Live Not Where I Love, Sisters, Many Dreams Must Fly Away): seventy-eight minutes of grace and elegance.
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