Mary Mccaslin - Old Friends
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Artist: Mary MccaslinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-10-15
Music Label: Philo Records
Soundtracks:
- Things We Said Today
- Oklahoma Hills
- Wendigo
- Way Out There
- Pinball Wizard
- My World Is Empty Without You Babe
- Wayward Wind
- Blackbird
- Don't Fence Me In
- Old Friends
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Music Review: An exquisite collection of cover songs by Mary McCaslin.
Rating: 5 Stars
My pet project in my copious spare time this summer has been to put together playlists of cover versions of each Beatles album. It was while putting together such a playlist for "A Hard Day's Night," that after finding Otis Redding doing the title song and Julio Iglesias doing "And I Love Her," than I came across Mary McCaslin doing "Things We Said Today." In a word this is an exquisite cover of the original, done as a simple accoustic song, more in the folk tradition than pop. One of the best that you have ever heard, especially when it comes to the singing. To prove it is no fluke McCaslin also does a cover of "Blackbird" on this 1977 album, although that track is a bit more blues grass than "Things We Said Today."
Mary McCaslin was a country-folk singer whose topics were usually those of the Old West rather than Nashville. In addition to the covers of those two Beatles songs, not to mention a banjo-picking cover of "Pinball Wizard" that is almost as compelling, she does the western standard "Don't Fence Me In" (written by Cole Porter) and the Woody Guthrie tune "Oklahoma Hills." Actually, of the albums she did for Philo in the 1970s "Old Friends" is rather a typical because the only song she wrote on this one was the title song, which, rather surprisingly given the rest of the album, is not the Simon & Garfunkle tune. But when she comes up with such engaging covers as the Supremes' "My World Is Empty Without You Babe" it is hard to complain. There is a certain joy in hearing old songs done in new ways and these ten tracks score a number of bullseyes.
Basically then, McCaslin was covering the same sort of ground in the 1970s as we would think of with Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith and Lucy Kaplansky today. There is a 1992 collection, "The Best of Mary McCaslin: Things We Said Today" (which reaffirms the place of that particular song in her career), but you can also find all of her albums from that early period on CD: "Way Out West" (1974), "Prairie in the Sky" (1975), and "The Bramble and the Rose" (1978). There is also a "come back" album in 1994, "Broken Promises." Chances are that if you like what you hear on "Old Friends" you are going to want to check out the individual albums ("Way Out West" is probably the best of the bunch) rather than restricting yourself to the hits collection.
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