Rockabye

Rockabye Artist: Robin Holcomb
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 075596128926
EAN: 0075596128926
ASIN: B000002HAD


Release Date: 1992-09-01

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Listmania:

  1. My Favorite Music (in no particular order)

Tracks:

  1. Widowmaker
  2. Help A Man
  3. When I Stop Crying
  4. Rockabye
  5. Iowa Lands
  6. When Was The Last Time
  7. Dixie
  8. Primavera
  9. The Goodnight-Loving Trail
  10. The Natural World

Similar Items:

  1. Robin Holcomb
  2. The Big Time
  3. Little Three
  4. Solos

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars a slightly strange idiosyncratic disk.......2003-12-05

This is a slightly strange, idiosyncratic disk -- but not in a bad way. Robin Holcomb has a thin country-sounding voice. She plays piano and writes unusually literate and harmonically open songs. Her better known keyboardist husband, Wayne Horvitz, assembled some really crack jazz musicians (Bill Frisell, Marty Ehrlich et al.) to interpret this country chamber jazz. The results will probably not be to everyone's liking, but I note that the used copies are being practically given away, so why not take a flyer on it?

5 out of 5 stars What a great artist.......2002-10-15

I love all Robin albums, I have the all four. The first is haunting. This second one is more various, very arranged, and it's a marvel. Not often you meet such an artist honest, personal, who does his/her work as if nothing else was important. I believe the first worry of Robin is expression. I mean, it's probably what does interest her the most. To express what she has inside, the best way as possible. The third album is more instrumental, and equally wonderful (Robin is a great pianist) and I am still tasting her new one, "The Big Time".

God bless such real artists.

1 out of 5 stars Yuk!.......2001-02-20

Yuk! This CD was terrable! Don't bother!

5 out of 5 stars One of the best of the Nineties!.......1999-10-02

I haven't stopped listening to this CD since I purchased it on its release date in 1992. Simply put, Ms, Holcomb is a visionary. I'm truly saddened and surprised that this CD (or one of her other 2) did not take off. Her fragile voice shimmers through these 10 haunting songscapes. This is deep music. After several listens this music settles into your bones like an old limp that won't go away. Reminding us, like Jacob of old, of how we've wrestled our way through this life and been touched by God through the knowing glances of weathered strangers.

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