Groove Me
Champagne & Wine
Dreamer
Welcome To The Jungle
Misty Blue
Boondocks
Cigarettes & Coffee
In The Evening
Too Tired
That's The Chance You Take
Let Me Down Easy
Frogtoon Music Album Info: The Dreamer
Published: 11 Nov 2011, 00:09
Etta James’ Health Has Been Deteriorating In Recent Years So As Sad As The Announcement Is That “The Dreamer” Is Her Final Album As She Retires From Music It Isn’t A Shock. The Songs On The 73-Year-Old R&B-Blues-Jazz Singer’s First Collection In Five Years Have None Of The Overt Swan-Song Character Of The Album Glen Campbell Turned Out Earlier This Year With The Help Of Producer Julian Raymond. Instead We Get A Career-Twilight Portrait Of James And Her Darker-Than-Ever Voice In A Set Of Moody Bluesy And Slow-Jam Groove Numbers. One Exception May Be The Chugging “Too Tired ” An Up-Tempo Workout In Which She Nonetheless Embodies The World-Weary Sentiment Of The Title.
Axl Rose Is Not A Master Of Funk And Blues But After Hearing James’ In-The-Pocket Treatment Of Guns N’ Roses’ Signature Song “Welcome To The Jungle ” He May Be Considered One Of The Genre’s Noted Songwriters. Experiments Aside She’s Mostly Ruminating On The Topic That’s Been Ground Zero For Most Of Her Long Career Love. The Album High Point May Be Her Seven-Minute Exploration Of Otis Redding’s “Cigarettes And Coffee ” As She Sorts Through All The Emotional Possibilities In This Intimate Conversation Between Lovers Taking What Seems Like All The Time In The World. That Time On Earth Is A Finite Proposition Just Makes It Resonate That Much Stronger.