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The smoky, sizzlingly soulful rural Georgian created an immediate and well-deserved critical firestorm with her 2003 debut Salt; the L.A. Times wasn't overstating it when they said, "She walked onstage at the Hollywood Bowl a virtual unknown...Fifteen minutes later, she walked off a star." Like her more (so far, but maybe not for long) renowned labelmate Diana Krall, Lizz Wright is a brilliant interpreter who can cover rock classics (Neil Young's "Old Man," the Youngbloods' "Get Together") as if they were fresh new generational statements, and even give an emotional urgency to fluffy classics like "A Taste of Honey" (done all swampy here). She even works wonders with her transcendent twist on Ella Jenkins' "Wake Up Little Sparrow," turning the tune into a meditation on the bluesy realities of love. But she is also an inspired songwriter in her own "wright," creating the resonating and heartrending, Norah Jones-like "Hit the Ground," with Jones' writer Jesse Harris, and other instantly seductive tracks like a soaring "Trouble" (the first song she ever wrote on guitar) and hauntingly dark title tune. These latter two, easily on par with the original material, shouldn't be so deep in the mix, and Wright should definitely include more originals as time goes on. Clearly aware that he has a future legend with a one in a million voice on his hands -- and that anything getting in the way of that intimate emotional connection would be criminal -- producer Craig Street provides only the sparsest and down-home of productions.
© Jonathan Widran /TiVo
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Ric Marlow, ComposerLyricist - David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Mazur, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Scott, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Craig Street, Producer - Chris Allen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Frisell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Danny Kopelson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Haynes, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Lizz Wright, MainArtist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Henry, ComposerLyricist - Greg Leisz, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lizz Wright, MainArtist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jesse Harris, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Toshi Reagon, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lizz Wright, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Patrick Warren, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - YUKA HONDA, ComposerLyricist - DOUGIE BOWNE, ComposerLyricist - Jeff Haynes, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Lizz Wright, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Marc Anthony Thompson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Don Dougherty, Composer - Ellis Reynolds, Composer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Al Neiburg, Author - Lizz Wright, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Neil Young, ComposerLyricist - Greg Leisz, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lizz Wright, MainArtist - Marc Anthony Thompson, Harmonica, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Leisz, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ella Jenkins, ComposerLyricist - Lizz Wright, MainArtist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Patrick Warren, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lizz Wright, MainArtist - Marc Anthony Thompson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chet Powers, ComposerLyricist - David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Frisell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Toshi Reagon, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Haynes, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Lizz Wright, MainArtist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lizz Wright, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Carlos Henderson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Patrick Warren, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Frisell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Lizz Wright, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Patrick Warren, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Leisz, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jesse Harris, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - S. Husky Hoskulds, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Street, Producer - Matthew Cullen, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lizz Wright, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Piltch, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Diana Krall, ComposerLyricist - Glenn Patscha, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BRUCE, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - EARL HARVIN, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - ELVIS COSTELLO, ComposerLyricist - Craig Street, Producer - Lizz Wright, MainArtist
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
The smoky, sizzlingly soulful rural Georgian created an immediate and well-deserved critical firestorm with her 2003 debut Salt; the L.A. Times wasn't overstating it when they said, "She walked onstage at the Hollywood Bowl a virtual unknown...Fifteen minutes later, she walked off a star." Like her more (so far, but maybe not for long) renowned labelmate Diana Krall, Lizz Wright is a brilliant interpreter who can cover rock classics (Neil Young's "Old Man," the Youngbloods' "Get Together") as if they were fresh new generational statements, and even give an emotional urgency to fluffy classics like "A Taste of Honey" (done all swampy here). She even works wonders with her transcendent twist on Ella Jenkins' "Wake Up Little Sparrow," turning the tune into a meditation on the bluesy realities of love. But she is also an inspired songwriter in her own "wright," creating the resonating and heartrending, Norah Jones-like "Hit the Ground," with Jones' writer Jesse Harris, and other instantly seductive tracks like a soaring "Trouble" (the first song she ever wrote on guitar) and hauntingly dark title tune. These latter two, easily on par with the original material, shouldn't be so deep in the mix, and Wright should definitely include more originals as time goes on. Clearly aware that he has a future legend with a one in a million voice on his hands -- and that anything getting in the way of that intimate emotional connection would be criminal -- producer Craig Street provides only the sparsest and down-home of productions.
© Jonathan Widran /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:48:58
- Main artists: Lizz Wright
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Forecast
- Genre: Jazz
© 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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