Been To
Canaan – Carole King
Heard
6/5/2015 around 12:45, at Wegman’s (Germantown)
Friday, June 5, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
LP #9 Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy – The Other Side (1992)
If it’s cheating
to have this album on my list when I’ve already declared Eva’s Live at Blues Alley to be my all-time
favorite live album, then so be it. ;-) If you love standards, particularly R&B
classics like “Drown In My Own Tears” and “Dark End Of The Street”, and you like
(or at least can tolerate) Chuck’s baritone, this one is definitely for you;
the two both sing on the first 6 tracks, while the rest feature a couple more
duets plus solo turns by each of them. I’ve pretty much exhausted my
superlatives for Eva by now (and there’s also a little more about Chuck in the
entry for “Bustin’ Loose”), but if you do want more, check out this great 1998 Washington Post column by Jefferson Morley.
Favorite
tracks:
You’ve
Changed
I Could Have
Told You So
Dark End Of
The Street
Red Top
You Don’t
Know Me