Ink

Ink Artist: Livingston Taylor
Label: Chesky Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Hybrid SACD
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 090368025364
EAN: 0090368025364
ASIN: B00009UVY3


Release Date: 2003-05-22

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Tracks:

  1. Isn't She Lovely
  2. First Time Love
  3. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
  4. Fly Away
  5. Our Turn to Dance
  6. I Must Be Doing Something Right
  7. Biggest Part of Me
  8. Get Here
  9. Baker Street
  10. More I See You
  11. End of the Innocence
  12. Never Can Say Good-Bye
  13. Walkin' My Baby

Similar Items:

  1. Good Friends
  2. Bicycle
  3. Our Turn to Dance
  4. There You Are Again
  5. Beautiful Road

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars For easy listening - none better.......2003-03-17

Whenever I am stressed out by the day's events, this is the first album I put on. Livingston Taylor's vocals are just so soothing and the songs on this CD are so smooth and easy to listen to. While Oleta Adams has the best performance of "Get Here," Livingston brings his own style to the song and makes it one of the best renditions of this classic.

4 out of 5 stars Very Soothing.......2001-03-27

This CD is a great collection of music for those queit and introsepctive times. Livingston really puts a lot of stylings into his voice. Although most of these songs are covers of other people's amterial, Livingston really makes them his own by tinkering with the arrangements. I like the blues inflection on Hallelujah I Love Her So. Overall this is a winner for those who have some ease in their souls.

5 out of 5 stars Liv it up!.......2001-02-23

The vastly underrated Livingston Taylor has been honing his craft for some thirty years now, and on this CD he turns himself loose on a collection of well-chosen material. Two of the songs are Liv's own ("Our Turn To Dance" and "I Must Be Doing Something Right," both from the CD _Our Turn To Dance_); the rest are from all over the musical map.

For this recording, Liv has hooked up with a tight little outfit consisting of two (other) acoustic guitars, acoustic bass, percussion, harmonica, and a pair of backing vocalists; the overall style is no-frills jazz-inflected folk of the very finest kind. The tunes themselves are all wonderfully arranged for this musical setting, and some of them work shockingly well: I personally didn't even particularly like "Baker Street" when it was new (and tremendously overplayed), and I was pretty well blown away by this recording of it. (The sax part taken over by a blues harp? Believe it or not, they pull it off.) Likewise, a couple of the others -- for example Ambrosia's "The Biggest Part of Me" -- are not tunes I especially cared before before I got this CD. But Liv breathes new life into them.

Liv's own guitar work is uncredited in the liner notes, but if you're familiar with his style you can hear him playing on some of the tunes anyway. And his mellifluous tenor has only improved over the years; his delivery is earnest, credible, and inflected with his trademark impish humor. The result is one of Liv's finest CDs, a studio effort that sounds live.

If you're new to Liv, this CD is a great place to begin. (I even prefer the version of "I Must Be Doing Something Right" on this CD to the one on _Our Turn To Dance_.) If you like it, you may want to check out _Bicycle_ and _Our Turn To Dance_ next, in either order.

Most of Liv's older releases are now available on CD as well -- including his fine debut album, his terrific follow-up _Liv_, his third release _Over The Rainbow_ (good songs...), and his stellar _Three-Way Mirror_. Enjoy.

5 out of 5 stars " Ink " is " Taylor-made " for warming hearts on a cold day.......1999-10-23

" Ink " is an excellent place to start for anyone who is not familiar with Livingston Taylor's work. From beginning to end, this album is a definite winner--especially beautiful and poignant is the tune " Fly Away. " Liv always seems to have that ability to fill your heart to full capacity. From original tunes, such as " First Time Love " to startling remakes of Ambrosia's " Biggest Part of Me " and Stevie Wonder's " Isn't She Lovely, " Liv consistantly paints beautiful pictures of lovliness and delivers powerful doses of positivity. " Hallelujah, Liv ! We love you so ! "

5 out of 5 stars Destined to become one of my favorites.......1998-12-01

This is one of those rare cd's that after owning for over a year, I still keep it with me constantly. whenever i am at a loss as to what to listen to, thisgoes in. Livingston combines the beauty of his acoustic talents with a never overbearing backup that is a joy to listen to time andtime again. His acoustic talents shine on Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" and the romantic ballad "The More I See You". His remake of "I Must Be Doing Something Right", previously released as a duet with Michael Franks,is far superior to the original. The cd closes with a splendid version of "Never Can Say Goodbye". I recommend this cd to any and everybody. It makes a perfect gift for those who have never experienced Livingston'smusic.

Music CD:

  1. Strawbs - Greatest Hits Live ~ The Strawbs
  2. Summit Meeting ~ Acoustic Guitar Summit
  3. Gypsy Flamenco ~ Carlos Heredia
  4. The Legends Collection ~ Peter Sarstedt
  5. Ebb and Flow ~ Robin Laing
  6. Tom Paxton Tribute ~ Carolyn Hester
  7. Stony Steps ~ Matt Molloy
  8. Twice Told Tales ~ Sid Selvidge
  9. Here We Go, Baby ~ Glenn Yarbrough
  10. The Comfort It Brings ~ Charissa Johnson

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No Place for Disgrace ~ Flotsam & Jetsam

You're a Woman I'm a Machine ~ Death from Above 1979

Foreshadowing Our Demise ~ Skinless

Together ~ Dr. N Ramani, Hariprasad Chaurasia

Love Songs ~ Fantahun Shewankochew

Live ~ Etienne Daho

The Game ~ Crispy

Junior (1994 Film) ~ James Newton Howard

Biggest Fool ~ Lsk