Every Grain of Sand:15th Anniversary Edition by JUNGR,BARB [VINYL]

Description: Tracks:I'll Be Your Baby TonightIf Not for YouThings Have ChangedRing Them BellsNot Dark YetDon't Think Twice, It's All RightIs Your Love in VainIt's All Over Now, Baby BlueI Want YouSugar BabyBorn in TimeWhat Good Am I?Tangled Up in BlueForever YoungEvery Grain of Sand Performer Notes: Personnel: Barb Jungr (vocals, harmonica); Mark Lockheart (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Sonia Fairburn (violin); Sonia Oakes Stuart (cello); Kim Burton (accordion); Simon Wallace (piano); Russell Churney, Julie Walkington (bass); Gary Hammond (percussion).Recorded in October 2001. Includes liner notes by Barb Jungr.Every Grain of Sand is a breathtaking revelation on several fronts. First, Barb Jungr treats Bob Dylan as one of the great tunesmiths of the American popular tradition. Not merely as rock & roll's preeminent songwriter, the direction from which virtually all others have approached his canon, but as a sophisticated composer the equal of the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, or Cole Porter. Jungr dramatically re-reads that canon and she fearlessly reshapes it in the process. To cite the most radical instances, she turns "Things Have Changed" into an Eastern European jig and "Tangled up in Blue" into a jaunty, jazzy western, while "Born in Time" is a marvel full of Baroque voicings. One may quibble -- and Dylan fanatics, known to be provincial on occasion, certainly will, perhaps vociferously -- with an arrangement here or a lyrical interpretation or subtle shading there without -- and here is the magic of the album -- in the least invalidating the singer's choices. Indeed, part of the sublime beauty of Every Grain of Sand is that it inspires, even challenges, one to make personal revisions and reinterpretations. Ultimately, Jungr is one of the few artists who has managed to not only come out on the other side of this songbook unscathed, but to actually come out having enhanced its gravity, significance, and unvarnished beauty as well as her own. She is not merely singing, but telling stories. She opens up a window of vulnerability and sensuality that had previously sat stoic beneath the surface of these songs and suffuses them with such a delicate, gauzy luminosity that they seem to glow from the inside out. Her singing is soulful and emotionally naked, and the performances are so expressive that you take something new away with each listen. The treasures ("I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," "Ring Them Bells," "Not Dark Yet," "Is Your Love in Vain?," and "What Good Am I?") tucked away here are endlessly rewarding. If you think you've heard Bob Dylan -- or Barb Jungr -- before Every Grain of Sand, you are, simply put, mistaken. ~ Stanton Swihart Format: Vinyl (1 Disc) Studio/Live: Studio Release Date: 24 March, 2017 Label: Linn Records Dimensions: 32 x 2.5 x 30.5 centimeters (0.31 kg)

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