Susan Carter – Wonderful Deeds And Adventures (Remastered) (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:16 minutes | 891 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
This release’s subtitle, A Collection Of Stirring Scenes & Moving Accidents, hints quite strongly at a bit of a mixed bag where perhaps not everything is totally pulled off. There is, however, a good deal of interest here, notably on the opening track which is a radical and fascinating reworking of Buffalo Springfield’s Bluebird. Although this album was recorded in New York in 1970, Susan Carter was an unknown member of the legendary Laurel Canyon group of artists, and her approach sat somewhere between earlier jazz/blues influences from Billie Holiday and the fresh approach of Laura Nyro. Her covers of Donovan’s Young Girl Blues and Lennon/ McCartney’s I’m So Tired work well and take the songs in new directions, though her take on Randy Newman’s Illinois is arguably less successful.
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