Patti Scialfa - Play It As It Lays
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Artist: Patti ScialfaEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Looking For Elvis
- Like Any Woman Would
- Town Called Heartbreak
- Play Around
- Rainy Day Man
- The Word
- Bad For You
- Run, Run, Run
- Play It As It Lays
- Black Ladder
Music reviews of Play It As It Lays
Music Review: Soutehrn Blues Seen Through The Prism of a Jersey Girl
Rating: 4 Stars
Southern Blues Seen Through the Prism of a Jersey Girl, September 6, 2007
"The music here could best be described as dominated by southern rural blues - only as seen through the prism of a certain Jersey Girl. Beneath it all, Scialfa's voice -- which often comes through like a slightly huskier, smokier sounding version of Bonnie Raitt -- buttresses lyrics that are both tough, yet tender." Bill Collier
Patti Scialfa has written a CD about relationships. Many relationships, romantic, father/daughter, mother, professional, poet, singer and writer. She was inspired by some women she emulates," Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, doomed poet Sylvia Plath, renowned author Joan Didion, and, shifting gears, drag racer Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney". "I didn't realize I'd done that, believe me!" the singer-songwriter says, "I just like strong women. No matter how old you are, you still need your role models."That's why churches were built with high ceilings, you know? To look up."
Patti Scialfa,also known as the mother of 3 children to Bruce Springsteen, and wife of the same, says she wanted to expand herself musically, lyrically and emotionally. She assembled a great band for the album, featuring guitarist Nils Lofgren, drummer Steve Jordan, bassist Willie Weeks, keyboardist Cliff Carter and utility player Springsteen (harmonica, guitars, B3 organ). They called themselves"the Whack Brothers."
Patti Scialfa wrote all ten songs that reflect the soft-focus blues revivalists. She fits right in with Bonnie Raitt and John Cray. She has a sound of her own, and she starts the CD with 'Looking for Elvis', this is one of her best songs and is a roots rock, folk, sound looking for redemption.. The title song 'Play It As It Lays' is gorgeous and infuses a country sound. 'Like Any Woman Would,' tells of a woman who is a mother, sister, friend and confidant as well as wife. 'The Word,' was written after her father's death and tells of family love , lost. In 'Bad For You,' she sings in an understated level of "I could have had it bad for you, and that's not good." On the song "Run, Run,"s she looks for the delta blues spirit. In 'Town Called Heartbreak', she mixes bayou swamp, with the witchy sound of L.A. And she sings "you can play around, but don't ya play around me," to an unfaithful lover on the song "Play Around" All the songs are written in a style that lends itself to the bluesy sound that best fits her voice.
"It's to Patti Scialfa's considerable credit that she's launched a potent solo career in the shadow of husband Bruce Springsteen, and in doing so has not tried to chase after anything but the mature kind of music she naturally makes. The Garden State native is at heart a Greenwich Village troubadour with a soul of ... well, soul, the classic variety from Memphis as distilled by scores of Jersey shore joints." Ben Scott
This is a CD that pleased me, Patti Scialfa has a beautiful resounding voice. Patti Scialfa was born in Asbury Park as was her husband, but she has the sound and looks of a southern woman singing the blues.
Highly enjoyable. prisrob 11-01-08
23rd Street Lullaby
Rumble Doll
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10 tracks. Small drill hole through corner of jewelbox.Patti Scialfa can't utter a sentence, let alone issue an entire album, without the world scanning it for Bruce Springsteen-related subtext, so on Play It as It Lays--the sharpest, most assured, and best record of her solo career--she gives up. This beautiful, world-weary record, rich in girl-group harmonies, folk-roots rhythms, and clear-eyed lyrics, gets to the heart of what it means to be in a long-term relationship, whether it's with a rock god or a shoe salesman. There are sacrifices ("Like Any Woman Would"), concessions ("Town Called Heartbreak"), thrills ("Rainy Day Man"), and long spells of casting aside wistfulness and scraping up hope ("Looking for Elvis"). Most of all, though, there is honesty. Scialfa, a longtime E-Street band member and mother to the three Springsteen teenagers, sings these songs in the dark, grainy voice that's distinguished her from the start, but here it takes on a weightier, more lived-in quality. She's as comfortable with this material as she was with her backing band for the project--Willie Weeks, Nils Lofgren, Cliff Carter, and Mr. Springsteen himself all piled into a room in her New Jersey farmhouse for the sessions, christening themselves the Whack Brothers along the way--and it shows. Play It as It Lays is Scialfa's Born in the USA; her masterpiece. --Tammy La Gorce
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