Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson – Stay There ‘Til I Get There (1970/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 31, 2023 · Comments off

Stay There ‘Til I Get There is Lynn Anderson’s first album for Columbia Records following a successful stint on the independent Chart label. Since Anderson’s crossover smash “Rose Garden” was released several months later, Stay There ‘Til I Get There sounds just like one of her Chart albums, down to the banjo picking on the hit title track. The one departure from her earlier records is the poverty of compositions by Anderson’s mother, Liz Anderson. Producer Glenn Sutton takes her place to an extent, but Anderson also covers the underrated Sonny James song “True Love’s a Blessing” and Bobbie Gentry’s hit “Fancy.” “Rose Garden” gave Anderson’s sound a strong push toward pop music, so those who enjoy her early straight country recordings will also enjoy this first album for Columbia.

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Laurie Anderson – Cry (1972/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 31, 2023 · Comments off

Cry continues Lynn Anderson’s trend toward pop music and away from songs written by her gifted mother, Liz Anderson. In their place are songs written by producers Glenn Sutton and Billy Sherrill, including songs they originally wrote for other artists in some cases. The title track, a 1951 hit for Johnny Ray, became a Top Three country hit for Anderson and is emblematic of the direction her career took in the wake of her crossover hit “Rose Garden.” Other pop covers include very recent hits by the Addrisi Brothers (“We’ve Got to Get It On Again”) and Sonny & Cher (“When You Say Love”). Anderson turns in an ace version of Sherrill and Sutton’s “Tonight My Baby’s Coming Home,” another recent hit this time a country one for Barbara Mandrell. Anderson was a hot commercial property at this stage and was putting out albums at a rate of three or four a year; she was such an exceptional vocalist she always did well by the material, but the preponderance of pop covers and her drift toward easy listening vocal music (she turns Ray Price’s “I Won’t Mention It Again” into a potential adult contemporary hit) is an ambiguous development.

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Laurie Anderson – If the Creek Don’t Rise (1969/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 28, 2023 · Comments off

Anderson married country songwriter Casey Anderson in 1946, but worked as a secretary before turning to songwriting herself. She wrote ‘Pick Of The Week’ (Roy Drusky, 1964), ‘(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers’ (Merle Haggard, 1965), ‘Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart’ (Conway Twitty, 1966), ‘Just Between The Two Of Us’ (Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens, 1966) and ‘I’m A Lonesome Fugitive’ (Merle Haggard, 1967), which was written with her husband and established Haggard’s rebellious image. She recorded on RCA Records from 1964-70, and had country hits with ‘Mama Spank’, ‘Tiny Tears’, ‘Husband Hunting’ and, in 1972, she recorded a country version of ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again’ for Epic. ‘The Game Of Triangles’ was sung with Bobby Bare and Norma Jean. She wrote Lynn Anderson’s (her daughter) first country hit, ‘Ride, Ride, Ride’ in 1966, and they later made the US country charts with a duet, ‘Mother May I’. Lynn recorded Songs My Mother Wrote and is still placing her mother’s songs with contemporary artists. Liz and Casey remain in the music business and hosted a country show on cable television in Nashville. Anderson returned to recording in the late 90s.

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Laurie Anderson – Songs from the Bardo (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 18, 2023 · Comments off

Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within.

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