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Dedication features six Cercie originals among its eleven songs; these serve as proof that Cercie clearly feels as comfortable writing as she does leading a band. Drummer Savine contributes the whimsical "Mr. Chuckles," and four standards round out the album, with the gorgeous Richard Rogers ballad "If I Loved You" showing how delicately meticulous a player Cercie can be while maintaining her richness. Miller's compositions display an understated maturity and a wonderful sense of both space and texture...
High points on this disc include the"Cannonball" Adderly's mournful ballad "Mercy,Mercy, Mercy," and the four tracks by Booker T.and MG's (the only band that reallydeserves the label as `the hardest working band inshow biz'): "Green Onions" (which was named whenbass player Lewis Steinberg was asked to think ofthe funkiest thing he could), the molasses-thick"Hip Hug-Her," the ghetto-blues soundtrack to the1969 movie Uptight, "Time is Tight" and"Hang `Em High," an organ-driven remaking of thetheme song for the Clint Eastwood spaghettiwestern of the same name...
...power behind the song, from Dion's new album The Colour of My Love (550 Music/Epic), is her bring-the-house-down voice, which turns an old, schmaltzy ballad into a soaring pop aria. That voice glides effortlessly from deep whispers to dead-on high notes, a sweet siren that combines force with grace. And it is not just a studio creation -- as Americans have had a chance to see. Dion has a concert special running on the Disney Channel through March and is just wrapping up her first U.S. tour as a headliner -- a 17-day, 10-city trek...
...integrate melodic neatness with the aforementioned back-beats. "Reinventing Penicillin," for example, could be a good slowed-down New Order song, and "Trumpet Play" nonchalantly imports a soft "jazz" trumpet and jazz-club background noise into the end of what would otherwise be a rolling, groove-oriented late-night "ballad...
...been born 100 years later, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Class of 1885, might have been among them. It was Thayer, a Lampoon president who authored the most famous piece of writing about baseball in history--the ballad "Casey at the Bat"--as the "funny man" for the San Francisco Examiner...