Barbara Keith

Artist: Barbara Keith
Label: Water
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 646315712728
EAN: 0646315712728
ASIN: B00015YW30

Release Date: 2004-03-11

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Tracks:

All Along The Watchtower
Rolling Water
The Bramble And The Bush
Burn The Midnight Oil No More
Free The People
Detroit Or Buffalo
The Raod I Took To You
Shining All Along
Rainy Nights Are All The Same
A Stone's Throw Away

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Customer Reviews:

In SPITE of being over-produced........2006-10-28

Reviewer: M. Bromberg "dashbitters" complained that this "production is a bit too slick", and I'd concede that point if'n he wasn't just dead wrong that "her voice isn't very distinctive". Granted, you get her VERY distinctive voice much more clearly with her current band 'The Stone Coyotes', but it was definitely present here. "All Along The Watchtower" isn't "unfocused and weak", it is just a different take, in 1972, on Dylan. Bromberg is welcome to his opinion, but mine is that his review is wrong-headed. I've missed this album and thought about it a lot over the years as decades ago, I loaned this favorite vinyl LP to a girl whose stereo system (I hadn't realized) was one of those heat powered, sandpaper-and-nail rigs that returned my cherished album to me gouged, worn and warped. Recently, I've started getting together again with an old roommate, swapping music (CDs) and reading materials (paperbacks) and movies (DVDs) that delight, which prompted me to track down and purchase two copies of that prized LP on CD, one for me and one for him to take home and share with his kids and wife. Money well spent. I find songs 2, 3 and 4 (following number 1 - "All Along The Watchtower") a build-up to the evermore rising 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 culminating in a stomping "A Stone's Throw Away". The musicians on the album (Lowell George, Sneaky Pete, Asher, Kunkel, Keltner, Sklar, Spooner, Kortch[mar], Tutt, Emory Gordy) knew just who and what they were working with. Barbara Keith knew just what and who she was working with too; knew that she was over-produced, gave back the earnest money, walked away from the studio producers, and thank God, came back to music on her own terms. Please, do yourself a favor and go out and get 'The Stone Coyotes', especially "Situation Out of Control" and "fire it up", but don't neglect this effort. As Stephen Saunders said, "... get it now, and you will have a small treasury of perfect songs that will last you all your life."

Barbara`Keith is a Star.......2005-06-23

I bought this LP in 72 when it came out, and also bought the CD as An import a few years ago. Sadly Barbara came out at the same time as Bonnie Raiit, and the promoting bucks went to Bonnie. Barbara is everything Bonnie is and more. Not only does she Rock on All Along The Watch Tower, but she delivers both country & blues like no other. This is a must CD for everyones collection.

Struck by lightning.......2004-06-02

Keith's second solo of 1971 is one of those rare albums where you find that after repeated listenings you can recall every song. Brilliant writing, a true emotional pitch, a voice to die for, and the very best session players.

Forget about the country folk "genre", it's much larger than that. If you don't have it, get it now, and you will have a small treasury of perfect songs that will last you all your life.

It is a wonderful thing that, after 25 years of silence, Keith has returned with four CDs under the Stone Coyotes banner. There are flashes of the genius that animated her second solo, but it seems you only get hit by that kind of lightning once.

PS: Now to re-release her first solo, the world's least procurable piece of vinyl, which came out on Verve Forecast.

THE great lost album.......2004-05-31

I've had this on vinyl since it was released, and to my mind it may be the greatest "lost" album of all time. The musicianship (as expected from the L.A. "A" team of the era) is superb throughout, and all the songs are first rate. But it's the last two that make this a standout. "Rainy Nights" sets you up, and then "A Stone's Throw Away" delivers the goods. It still sends shivers down my spine. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of Ronstadt, Coolidge, Emmy Lou, Bonnie and all those chicks, but this one effort is right up there with the best single album of any in that bunch. I can't vouch for the sonics of the CD, but the original vinyl is killer.

Barbara's too-slick 1972 album has a few gems.......2004-05-18

Released in that golden age when the record industry couldn't make albums by "California country" singer/songwriters fast enough, this early effort has a few rough gems ("The Road I Took to You," "Detroit or Buffalo"), and some good musicians (Lowell George of Little Feat, most notably), but it doesn't really shine. The production is a bit too slick, and her voice isn't very distinctive -- she's not a belter like Linda Ronstadt, not a crooner like Rita Coolidge -- so even a song as dynamic as Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" sounds unfocused and weak. Delaney and Bonnie had a modest hit with Barbara's best song here, "Free the People," and it's the one song she delivers with some real conviction, but the album suffers from too much pop production and not enough kick.

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