Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Artist: Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Label: Wea International
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093624567721
EAN: 0093624567721
ASIN: B000026HDP

Release Date: 1994-06-23

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Tracks:

Kiss and Say Goodbye
My Town
Blues in D
Heart Like a Wheel
Foolish You
(Talk to Me Of) Mendocino
Complainte Pour Ste-Catherine
Tell My Sister
Swimming Song
Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
Go Leave
Travellin' on for Jesus

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Customer Reviews:

Sophisticated pop.......2007-01-16

Kate and Anna McGarrigle's CD of twelve songs, first produced in 1975, is in my view one of the most beautiful and moving collections ever made. The songs are mostly about relationships with parents and with boyfriends, but there are also lovely ones about swimming, religion, travel, and the French-Canadian community. Perhaps the greatest is called 'The Jigsaw Puzzle of Life'. All the songs are superbly accompanied by guitars, banjos, piano, and many other instruments, and the harmonies are complex and often surprising. Every time I listen to the twelve songs, they bring tears to my eyes.

sisters in harmony.......2006-11-09

This is the sister's oldest album and it is one of their best. Without complex instrumental backing, the emphasis is on the lyrics and the simple melodies. The lyrics range from humourous to melancholy and the harmonies (as always) are magical. The cafe stlye music of this albums sets an idle background for the sister's unusual voices, displaying them to their best advantage.

A timeless gem.......2005-05-18

This LP/CD is pure listening pleasure. An absolute joy. Each song is very distinctive (instrumentation changing constantly) and some of them, as seen in previous reviews, are truly touching. Kiss and Say Goodbye, a joyful funky smile-on-the-face opener. Blues in D, glorious with its piano syncopation and clarinet. Mendocini is a song like no other, the best harmony I ever heard. Go Leave, truly touching in its simplicity. Honestly, I can think of only one better way to spend 45 minutes.

beyondo good.......2005-03-16

talk about a part of the soundtrack of your life-this is it! Talk To Me Of Mendocino...that song alone is worth the price of admission. These women are two of the best songwriters around. Their later work has unfailingly kept pace with this one. Idiosyncratic to a lovely degree-personal and intimate like the creases in an old shoe, they are truly themselves, and that is pretty rare in any age.

Ageless Classic.......2004-10-14

Gorgeous arrangements and the sweetest sibling voices I'd heard since Don & Phil Everly; this album burst into my world, seemingly from another era, in 1975. It came to my ears, like so many of my 70s classics, courtesy of the genial Chris Winter on Australian radio's best source of non-mainstream music,'Room To Move.' It was a generous sampling, though one song,'Mendocino' would have sufficed to lure me to the import shops the next day. Its slow surging, oceanic orchestral arrangement still puts me on edge. It also introduced to me the zaniness of Loudon Wainwright 111's writing, with 'Swimming Song', now part of our family singalongs.'Jigsaw Puzzle of Life,' & 'Go, Leave', seem to have been drawn from an ancient well. The sisters have recorded consistently over the decades & I welcomed the 'McGarrigle Hour' when it was released, with the full complement of McGarrigle couplings & progeny. They have made albums as good,'Dancer,' & 'Bruised Knees'come to mind, but none better than this stunning debut album. Its pop-leaning sensibility would lead me towards a happy decade's romance with Rounder Records, to source the roots from whence this marvel issued.

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