Various Artists - Acoustic Woman

Title: Acoustic Woman Artist: Various Artists Release Date: 9/19/2006 Re-Released On: 9/26/2006 Label: Metro Album Type(s): Various artists collection, Greatest Hits UPC: 698458331526 Genre: Rock Styles: Soul, Singer/Songwriter, Adult Contemporary, Soft Rock, Country-Folk, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Blues, Pop-Soul, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

1. Songbird :: Eva Cassidy
2. Central Reservation :: Beth Orton
3. Your Lies :: Shelby Lynne
4. Weak in the Presence of Beauty :: Alison Moyet
5. Little Mysteries :: Rickie Lee Jones
6. Bicycle Named Heaven :: Catie Curtis
7. Last Love Letter :: Alison Krauss
8. Sunshine :: Gabrielle
9. Hockey Skates :: Kathleen Edwards
10. Drake :: Beth Gibbons
11. Whole New You :: Shawn Colvin
12. Aragon Hill :: Hazel Dickens
13. You'll Get No More of Me :: Lynn Morris Band
14. Ill Wind :: Clare Teal
15. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [Live] :: Joan Baez

1. Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby :: Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch
2. I Can't Get My Head Around It :: Aimee Mann
3. Honey Child :: Eddi Reader
4. I Wish It Would Rain :: Nanci Griffith
5. Show Me Heaven :: Maria McKee
6. Come on in My Kitchen :: Rory Block
7. Motherless Child Blues :: Tracy Nelson
8. Yellow :: Bill Frisell, Petra Haden
9. The Girl from Ipanema :: Paula Santoro
10. He Thinks He'll Keep Her :: Mary Chapin Carpenter
11. Jolene :: Dolly Parton
12. Useless Desires :: Patty Griffin
13. Not Forgotten You :: Kelly Willis
14. The Shades of Gloria :: Maura O'Connell
15. Lighting Up the Mighty Mississippi :: Cheryl Wheeler

1. Marlene on the Wall :: Suzanne Vega
2. My Baby Just Cares for Me :: Nina Simone
3. Mad About the Boy :: Dinah Washington
4. September in the Rain :: Jaki Dankworth
5. MMM My Best Friend :: Sophie B. Hawkins
6. Still I Long for Your Kiss :: Lucinda Williams
7. Can We Go Home Now :: The Roches
8. I'm Gonna Be an Engineer :: Peggy Seeger
9. Walkin' After Midnight :: Patsy Cline
10. Broken Heart for Sale :: Heather Myles
11. When Your Lover Has Gone :: Stacey Kent
12. The Nearness of You :: Joanna Eden
13. Movie Kisses :: Thea Gilmore
14. Warm and Tender Love :: Reel & Soul Association
15. Baby, Don't You Quit Now :: Carol Sloane

Year Type Label Catalog # 2006 CD Metro 815

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As the title of this rather all over the map three-CD, 45-track set indicates, it's oriented toward woman-performed recordings with an acoustic flavor or base. That's about as much of a thematic generalization as you can make about the contents, though for the most part it's comprised of post-1990 recordings by female singer/songwriters. As far as that category goes, there are cuts by plenty of significant performers, including Eva Cassidy, Beth Orton, Shelby Lynne, Rickie Lee Jones, Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Aimee Mann, Nanci Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Petra Haden, Suzanne Vega, and Lucinda Williams. A few songs and artists of an earlier vintage are included as well, some of whom are stylistic ancestors of those kinds of sounds, such as Emmylou Harris and Joan Baez. Introducing some variety -- though also supplying some stylistic inconsistency -- are selections moving afield to jazz (Nina Simone, Dinah Washington), feminist folk (Peggy Seeger's "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer," a classic in that subgenre), and country (Patsy Cline's classic "Walkin' After Midnight," Dolly Parton's "Jolene"). As much of the set does have a placid, earnest singer/songwriter tone, however, the insertion of these numbers (as well as others with an especially rootsy base, such as Heather Myles' country tune "Broken Heart for Sale" and Rory Block's blues "Come on in My Kitchen") adds some welcome earth and grit. The overall concept remains ill-defined enough, however, to make one wonder what some of the tracks are doing here, whether because they don't seem particularly distinguished (like Paula Santoro's trite cover of "The Girl from Ipanema") or because (like Washington's orchestrated jazz-pop outing "Mad About the Boy") they don't tie in with a particularly "acoustic" theme. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Name Credits David Kalish Producer Neil Kellas Sleeve Notes, Compilation Rickie Lee Jones Producer Steve Berlin Producer