Walkin' My Cat Named Dog

Norma Tanega

Lançado em 12/04/66 por Rhino
Artistas principais: Norma Tanega
Género: Pop

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Folk singer Norma Tanega's debut album was released on the tiny New Voice Records label (her only labelmate was Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels) in 1966. Coming a bit after the folk revival of the late '50s and early '60s and before artists like Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash would redefine the possibilities of the merging of folk and rock, Walkin' My Cat Named Dog was bound to stand out, considering Tanega's highly individualistic take on the sound. Rather than the earnest, prescriptive allegiance to traditional folk sounds that had defined the genre previously, Tanega's approach was quite personal and unique. The singer's resonant, deadpan voice is a bit different from the more melodramatic tone favored in coffeehouses, but it's Tanega's rich, imaginative lyrics and surprising arrangements that yield songs that are interesting and playful without being unserious. The title track, of course, has its own peculiar charms and has been covered by everyone from Dr. Hook and Barry McGuire to They Might Be Giants; rather than a slight novelty number, it's as weird as it is wonderful, a poem about individuality wrapped in goofy imagery and odd-tempo music. "You're Dead" offers similar charms and is probably more known to contemporary audiences as the theme to What We Do in the Shadows. Beyond these, though, much of the rest of the album also holds considerable charms. "No Stranger Am I," for instance, is just one of the Tanega songs later performed by Dusty Springfield (the two would start a romantic relationship shortly after this album came out and Tanega moved to London), but it's built upon a 5/4 time signature which makes its lovely lyrics a bit disorienting. Even when Tanega goes in for traditional folk songs, she makes them her own, as when she expands a traditional number like "In the Pines" into "Hey Girl," with a more yearning and less vengeful perspective. © Jason Ferguson/Qobuz

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Norma Tanega

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