Lizz Wright - The Orchard
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Artist: Lizz WrightEdition: Music CD
Audio: French (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Music Label: Verve Forecast
Product features:
- WRIGHT LIZZ THE ORCHARD.
- Coming Home
- My Heart
- I Idolize You
- Hey Mann
- Another Angel
- When I Fall
- Leave Me Standing Alone
- Speak Your Heart
- This Is
- Song For Mia
- Thank You
- Strange
Music reviews of The Orchard
Music Review: Lizz Wright is all right with me
Rating: 5 Stars
Lizz Wright reprises her collaboration with producer Craig Street for this set of rich, warm, southern-flavoured soul songs. It's said that the songs are inspired by Wright's memories (and picture slides) of earlier times in the southern state of Georgia, which is where she grew up. She has thus created a very personal musical statement here. Apart from her voice - that resonating gospel-trained contralto - it's her no-frills, totally natural approach to her music that wins me over every time. It's all very organic, with lots of acoustic guitar and other live instruments.
My overall favourite tune on here is the thumping Ike Turner song "I Idolize You" with its great blues guitar riff but others, like "Coming Home", "Another Angel", the mesmerising "Speak Your Heart" with its haunting backing vocal by Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) and the incredibly beautiful and heartfelt "Song For Mia" are not far behind. The bonus track "Strange", written by Fred Burch & Mel Tillis, is a killer.
And check this out for a sample of the lyrics: "I know what you wanna say/ I see the words behind your eyes," Wright sings on the opening of "Speak Your Heart" and the opening line of "Strange" goes: "Strange how you stopped loving me, how you stopped needing me, when she came along/ Oh, how strange."
Or how about the chorus of "Hey Mann"?: "Hey Mann, what you doin' here?/ I don't remember lettin' you in/ Hey Mann, how d'you get in here?/ You're in my heart without consent."
I can only speak for myself of course but these are the kinds of lyrics that take me places. This is what soul music is all about.
But I like all the songs on here, really. Established fans - if they're anything like me - will fall in love with this on first listen but I do wonder if there's anything on here that might grab new fans and draw them in. Personally I'd recommend they go try out Salt and Dreaming Wide Awake first and then come get this if they like both of them, as I think they both had more songs that had what one might call 'instant appeal'.
Not that I'm suggesting this is a lesser album than her first two. Wright co-wrote most of the songs and I think she's done a good job. Bottom line: if you're looking for a genuine female soul singer who sings songs of love but keeps it clean and well above the waistline, it doesn't get any better than Lizz Wright.
Description of The Orchard
Wright's collaboration with Craig Street continues on The Orchard. While her prior releases boasted contributions from some of the jazz world's most respected jazz players, The Orchard features an eclectic cast that includes noted singer/songwriter Toshi Reagon, who co-wrote several songs with Wright; Calexico members Joey Burns and John Convertino; avant-guitar hero Oren Bloedow; longtime Bob Dylan sideman Larry Campbell; Ollabelle member Glenn Patscha; and guest vocalists Catherine Russell and Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius).The Orchard's fluid, intimate performances reflect the unpretentious spirit in which the music was created. The project actually began with a set of photographs taken by Wright in her rural hometown, focusing on the orchard of the title, a setting that she's known since childhood.
That organic approach was maintained throughout the recording process, which took place at studios in upstate New York's Catskill mountains, in Tucson, Arizona and Brooklyn. The sessions emphasized spontaneity and chemistry.
That rare ability to exist within the musical moment is one of the qualities that make Lizz Wright a special artist and The Orchard a career milestone. "This record was a huge learning experience, in every way, and I think it showed me a lot about myself," she states. "I never would have imagined that I would have written some of the things I wrote on this record, or told some of these stories. But I felt really free and I really let myself go, and I surprised myself."
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