Minnie Riperton - Come to My Garden
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Artist: Minnie RipertonBrand: RIPERTON,MINNIE
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Music Label: Varese Fontana
Soundtracks:
- Les Fleurs
- Completeness
- Come To My Garden
- Memory Ban
- Rainy Day in Centerville
- Close Your Eyes And Remember
- Oh By The Way
- Expecting
- Only When I'm Dreaming
Music reviews of Come to My Garden
Music Review: A Thing of Rare Beauty
Rating: 5 Stars
Well first of all I came to this album knowing very little of Minnie's work except "Lovin' You" which was a big radio hit here in the UK when I was a kid. I heard this album by chance playing in a store and was straight away thrown in a panic trying to find someone in the store who knew what was playing. I couldn't leave until it had finished playing...and it was only on the 2nd track when I arrived.The arrangements are like a funkier Burt Bacharach meets Jimmy Webb, some of the songwriting is also Webb-esque...especially the magnificent "Rainy Day in Centerville", which with all it's twists and turns wouldn't have sounded out of place on one of Jimmy's Richard Harris albums. "Rainy Day..." also features one of the most soulful and moving vocal performances you are ever likely to hear. This is the when great soul singers weren't frightened to sing the melody and Minnie's remarkable voice never sounds pompous of like she's showing off, like too many soul divas today. Another major highlight is the title track "Come to my Garden", with Minnie almost sounding like Yma Sumac in places.This is a track to chase away dark clouds and demons...it's like a fresh mountain stream trickling and winding it's way around a green mountain in the sunshine.
The album's orchestrations and rhythm section couldn't be better, never overly lush or flowery and it keeps an edge and real human warmth from start to finish. Also I don't mind some of the dirt left over on the remastering, everything sounds too clean these days anyway. BUT most importantly it's that incredible beautiful voice...WOW. Come to this garden and you'll never want to leave.
Description of Come to My Garden
An amazing vocalist with an impressive five octave range, Minnie Riperton will go down in the annals of Soul music history as one of the greatest singers of the 20th Century, even though her career was cut short by cancer - she was only 31 years old when she died. Produced, arranged, and orchestrated by Charles Stepney in 1970, Riperton's first solo album, Come to My Garden, largely went unnoticed upon its initial release in 1970, but has since become recognized as a masterpiece by fans and critics alike. All selections have been newly remastered.This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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