Looking Back To See

Looking Back To See

ASIN: B00005YIEX

Track Listings

1. Looking Back To See

2. Rio De Janeiro

3. Draggin' Main Street

4. You Thought I Thought

5. Itsy Witsy Bitsy Me

6. Your Love Is as Wild as the West Wind

7. Grass Is Green

8. Looking On

9. Jungle Magic

10. Set The Dawgs On ´Em

11. I´m Your Man, I´m Your Gal

12. Why Am I Falling

13. Do Memories Haunt Me

14. It´s Love I Guess

15. Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

16. Cool Green

Looking Back To See,The Browns,Bear Family,Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan,Pop,Rock,Traditional Country

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GREAT TRADITIONAL COUNTRY!!!

Don't go past this one!

Great Music

Follow up notes

Classic Country -- from Australia

Looking Back to See
Bill & Audrey , Bill Chambers , and Audrey Auld
Manufacturer: Reckless
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Losing Faith

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ASIN: B00000JB5C
Release Date: 1999-08-29

Tracks:

Looking Back To See
Sugar Daddy
Kiss The Children
Honky Tonk Fool
Searching
We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning
It Was The Whiskey Talking (Not Me)
Road Of Regret
Losing Side Of Love
You Opened My Eyes
Honky Tonk Merry Go Round
You Are My Sunshine
What's In Our Hearts
Meet Me Up There

Product Description

Described as 'The Music Nashville Has Forgotten How to Make'. A Must for Any Fan of Traditional Country/Hillbilly Music.

Album Details

Described as 'The Music Nashville Has Forgotten How to Make'. a Must for Any Fan of Traditional Country/Hillbilly Music.

Customer Reviews:

GREAT TRADITIONAL COUNTRY!!!.......2005-04-24

This is Audrey Auld's first release that was released in 1998. (I've previously review her latest CD in a previous issue of SCC-Nytt.) This is good traditional country. Bill Chambers is the father of Aussie singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers. He sings very good and he sometimes sings very like Gram Parsons. This is mostly shown on the song Kiss The Children, that Gram recorded in 1973. One of this CD's best songs. The CD has 14 songs, where half are covers and half are written by them. The best songs are "Losing Side Of Love", "What`s In Our Hearts", "We`ll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning" and "Searching". The last song "Meet Me Up There" makes me think of Mother Maybelle & The Carter Family with its` autoharp, harmony and guitarpickin'. This CD is recorded in Australia with Australian musicians that are very talented. I know there are people out there that only buy countrymusic from American or Canadian singers. But do buy Audrey Auld -this is actually one of 1998`s best records!

Don't go past this one!.......2005-04-18

If you are looking for music that has that old-style country sound then you have found it! What a delight to listen to Bill and Audrey harmonise on 14 great songs, half of which are written by the artists. And the musicianship is outstanding - dobro, lap steel, pedal steel, banjo, acoustic guitar - you will think you've gone to heaven, it is that good!

Great Music.......2003-07-16

I recently saw Bill Chambers and Audrey Auld at Threadgill's (south)in Austin, Texas... what a show! These two are wonderful! They invited several onstage: Colin Gilmore, Trish Murphy, Billy Dee, Eric Blakeley and fellow Australian Catherine Britt.

Former (?) Australians Kym Warner (mandolin) and Carol Young (bass) were the rest of Bill and Audrey's band that night(and 2/3 of "The Greencards," an Austin group) and were featured as well.

If you can, check out all of these artists, they put on one heck of a show.

As for the "review" for the "Bill & Audrey" CD... I bought the CD from Audrey after the show...it is wonderful. If you like good, old fashioned, "honky tonk" country music, you should love this one!

Follow up notes.......2002-10-21

I had reviewed this album earlier but wanted to add some notes:
NOTE 1: Audrey (Auld) has now moved to Texas and has a new album -- Fallen. There is no mention of this album in the Fallen write-up.
NOTE 2: To Joyce A (the writer of "We'll sweep out the ashes in the morning" -- Bill & Audrey do a great job. Also (if you can find it) there is another interesting version (faster) of the song by Bennie Jolink on his "Howling at the Moon." He is Dutch -- I picked the album up in Amsterdam: Mercury 546 275-2. I don't know if you can get it in the states.

Classic Country -- from Australia.......2001-01-15

I picked up this album in Sydney last year. I'm a long-time c&w fan (17 years in Texas), and I like to check out c&w in other countries on my business trips. I found a number of collections of country songs by Australian singers (mostly covers of U.S. top 40 stuff); then I found this album. It is spectacular. Bill & Audrey would be at home singing anywhere in Texas. They have great voices (Audrey's voice is in the class of memorable voices like Patsy Cline); some of the songs are old material (Honky Tonk Merry Go Round et. al.) but some are new "classics" in their own right. This is not for the Shania Twain crowd who want their country "pop" -- this is for serious country fans. If you want the real thing, check this out. You won't find yourself running back to Brooks & Dunn.

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English is an asset and a drawback
You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English
A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!
I love Carmen!

Carmen (Sung in English)
Bizet , Bardon , Gavin , Plazas , Magee , and Parry
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007JGRN
Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

Prelude
In The Plaza
Just Look At That Delicious Morsel
Here Come Our New Soldier Boys
Jose! There Was A Girl Here Looking For You Just Now
Off With You Old Soldier Boys
Corporal! Sir!
We Have Heard The Bell Summon Us To Meet Here
Ah, Just Look!
But Why Hasn't She Come, Our Carmencita?
Love's A Bird Wild As Any Rebel
Carmen! We Will Follow You High And Low!
The Cheek Of It!
Give Me News Of My Mother!
Your Dear Mother And I Were Leaving Church This Morning
I See My Mother's Face!
Wait A Moment - I'm Going To Read The Letter
Come And Help
So, Corporal: Tell Me What Happened
Well, Carmencita: What Do You Have To Say For Yourself?
Where Are You Taking Me?
There's An Old Bar In The City
Careful - It's Lieutenant!
Entr'acte
From Far Away Mysterious Sounds
Bravo, Bravo! More! Keep Dancing!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
Who's That? It's Escamillo, The Bullfighter From Granada
Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
You're Most Kind
We'll Come With You, Senor Torero
Toreador, Be Ready!
At Last! We Got Rid Of Them As Quickly As We Could
There's A Little Job That We're Starting!
Being In Love Is Not A Reason

Tracks:

To Bid You Welcome To Our Bar
La La La La La La La La...
Back To Camp!... Go At Once!
That Flow'r You Threw To Me I Treasured
No, It's Not Love At All!
Hello! Carmen!
Lieutenant Fair, It's True
The Sky Above The Open Road
Entr'acte
Keep Going, Dear Old Friend, Kep Going!
Right! Let's Stop For A While
Shuffle! Cut Them!
In Vain You Would Avoid The Bitter Things They're Saying
You're Back!
As For That Man, It Should Be Easy!
Is This The Place?
I Say That There's Nothing To Fear
It's Him! I'm Sure It's Him Over There!
Escamillo Is My Name, And I Come From Granada
She Had A Lover Here
Hola! Hola! Jose!
You Should Take Care, Carmen
Alas! Jose, Your Mother Is Ill
Entr'acte
A Few Cuartos! A Few Cuartos!
Here They Come! Here They Come!
If You Love Me, Carmen
It's You! It's Me!
Viva! Viva! What A Corrida!

Customer Reviews:

English is an asset and a drawback.......2004-07-20

The best thing about this recording of Carmen is the libretto. Conductor David Parry penned this facile and dramatic English translation. He avoids the pitfalls of literal translation to achieve an idiomatic flow that matches the rhythm of the original lyrics. I use this as a reference libretto for any of the French Carmens.

Unfortunately, the performance suffers from being sung in English. The singers declaim their parts with such proper British diction that Carmen comes across as a school marm. The spoken dialog is delivered beat for deliberate beat and is dripping with reverb. It makes the plaza, tavern and mountain pass all sound like a sewer pipe.

This is a good first Carmen for someone trying to understand the work. The libretto itself is a good investment for further listening. For an enjoyable performance with an emphasis on character and action, I recommend Regina Resnik on the London Double Decker set.

You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English.......2004-02-09

What a perfect introduction to opera. This newly released recording will surely get you hooked into opera. Carmen, a French opera by Georges Bizet, is the most recognizable and most popular in the opera world. It's famous melodies- the overture, the Habanera, The Toreador Song have all been featured in everything from cellular phone ring tones to Superbowl Commercial (last year's Superbowl with The "Opera In English" label has been making Italian operas into English for a number of years now. Also on the market are Verdi's La Traviata in English (with soprano Valerie Masterson as Violetta) Handel's Julius Caesar with Janet Baker and even Wagner's epic Ring Of The Nibeling sung in English. This is a terrific recording and I highly recommend it if you want to get into opera. Listen to this version first and then try the real, original French version Bizet had written. Patricia Bardon is sensational, sexy and dramatic as Carmen.

The real strength of this version is the dynamic drama. With the advantage of being sung in English, we get better insight on characters' emotions and motives, and we understand the drama a lot better. Carmen is all about great drama. Bizet drew the plot from the French writer Prosper Merimee's dark short story. Carmen is the ultimate femme fatale- a devil-may-care, sexy Gypsy living in Spain, seduces the conservatively raised soldier Don Jose, stealing him away from his fiancee, the passive Micaela, living a life of underground smuggling and rowdy taverns. "Habanera" and "The Gypsy Song and Dance" are very expressive of Carmen's extraordinarily liberal lifestyle. Don Jose, however, has fallen deeply in love- as he shows us in his song/aria "The Flower Song". But Carmen soon becomes tired of his constancy. Don Jose wants a committed, monogamous relationship with Carmen. But Carmen will not submit to love, since she is first and foremost a carnal creature. Eventually, she falls for the handsome Toreador Escamillo. Don Jose, consumed by jealousy, stabs Carmen at a bullfight after Carmen declares her love for Escamillo and rejects Don Jose's love. Don Jose's crazed, obscessive personality shines through in the English version as well. This tragedy has been done in English before so don't think this is the first time. Back in the 50's, there was a film, starring black actors "Carmen Jones" which was treated the same way as this opera- more like an English Broadway musical and with the dubbed singing voice of Marilyn Horne as Carmen. All in all, this recording is excellent.

A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!.......2003-09-17

This recording really sells "Carmen" as a drama. Although I have two other recordings of this opera and have seen it performed several times, it never quite worked for me dramatically. But thanks to the fine performances, conducting, and translation here, I've become a "Carmen" convert. Producing a good English-language performance of a foreign opera, especially a warhorse like "Carmen," is much more difficult than it might appear. You need performers who not only can sing the parts (of course) but also can sing *English* and make it halfway intelligible and make it sound like English and make it dramatically convincing to English-speakers. The singers on this recording do an excellent job all around. Don't be put off if you don't recognize their names -- they are up to the task musically and (especially) in their acting. Admittedly, as with *all* English-language recordings, some passages are very hard to understand without reading along, but most of the time the words are clear and effective. I would recommend this recording to any opera beginner or opera lover, even those who normally turn up their noses at performances in translation.

I love Carmen!.......2003-08-15

I do. I can think of no other opera with more melodic inventiveness, and few others with so sure a dramatic pulse. Carmen is popular and it thrills me to say that it is also a very good opera - not always true of popular things.

And what of this recording? Carmen sits well in English, so it is good to hear in translation, although some of the detais in the text jar. Escamillo refers to Jose as "my dear", which sounds rather peculiar, and the guide's line to Micaela: "it's not exactly inviting, is it?" sounds distinctly Middle England rather than Rural Spain. Some of the performers, not least Carmen herself, make the words work, although there are long tracts, especially with the chorus, where the language is distinctly indistinct.

The soloists are, by and large, strong. Patricia Bardon's deep, Handel-friendly voice adapts well to Carmen and she colours the music with phenomenal detail, sounding sexy and provocative from the start with an edge of pride and anger that emerges as the show goes on. She is out of her depth above the stave, though, and some extra top notes in the second act don't show her off to her best advantage. I have previously said that Julian Gavin is poorly served by recordings, though here he sounds much more even and gives a thrilling and musical performance (but his wooden spoken lines let him down). Mary Plazas is a lovely Micaela, rich-voiced and sincere (and word-perfect), but Garry Magee sounds miscast as Escamillo, lacking the ballast at the bottom of the voice to do justice to this tricky role.

The supporting cast is good (Mary Hegarty seems to do nothing but Frasquita these days!) but the really treasurable thing is the conducting. Stepping out of Italian Ottocento, David Parry turns his hand to this French Comedie with an appropriate lightness of touch. His pacing and handling of the set pieces is exemplary and the enrtractes go with a real swing.

A pleasure, then, for the Carmen naive or a novelty for the Carmen-acquainted. I nearly wrote Carmen-weary - but I don't think it's possible.

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