Little Light is a popular singer-songwriter collection from Allison Crowe.
It opens with a rustically shimmering version of "Northern Lights" - a song
Allison performed 'specially for the John Lennon Northern Lights Festival in
Durness, Scotland. "Angels" is recorded live at St. Andrew's United Church,
Christmas-time, in Allison's birthplace, Nanaimo, Canada. She's backed here
by bassist Dave Baird and percussionist Laurent Boucher. "Disease", a song
of social commentary, has, through years of live performance, become epic -
channeling Beethoven, grunge and more. Here 't'is captured in its raging
glory by Larry Anschell (on International Women's Day 2008, the same night
celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Engineer and Producer Anschell's Turtle
Recording Studios - this live track co-engineered by Brad Graham). Title
track "Little Light" is among a set of guitar songs that reveal a different
sort of Allison Crowe's writerly reflections in music. "Happy People", like
such earlier songs as Crowe's own, "Skeletons and Spirits", has a bright
melody that coats more acid observations. Strong and gentle poetics of "Hold
Back" warm us by a fire kindled in the '70s by Joni Mitchell. "Choose to Be"
bridges the piano sound of Crowe's "This Little Bird" album with her new
tunes. Bob Dylan's ramblin' shoes lead to a less restless farewell, as the
album closes with "Wedding Song" - Crowe's sweetest, rootsiest, love song to
date.
The interpretations on this collection are: "Time After Time" - originally
a hit for that most unusual girl, Cyndi Lauper – Allison Crowe, a child of
the '80s gives her impassioned take, live (Scott LittleJohn recording this,
the same night as "Angels"); "Running for Home", is a cover of the Matthew
Good Band, and one of the songs the artist has performed since her teens.
By way of the Righteous Babe, Ani DiFranco, comes Crowe’s passionate vocal-
guitar nod to the great peace-loving bard, Phil Ochs - "When I'm Gone".
"Can't be singing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have
to do it while I'm here."
Tracks:
1. Northern Lights (Allison Crowe)
2. Angels (Allison Crowe)
3. Disease (08/03/08) (Allison Crowe)
4. Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman)
5. Little Light (Allison Crowe)
6. Happy People (Allison Crowe)
7. Hold Back (Allison Crowe)
8. Choose to Be (Allison Crowe)
9. Running for Home (Matthew Frederick Good, David Robert Genn)
10. When I’m Gone (Phil Ochs)
11. Wedding Song (Allison Crowe)
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"Little Light" is another great album by Canadian singer Allison Crowe!
From the opening guitar strums of "Northern Lights", to the closing "Wedding Song", the whole album is great! There are many piano songs, but there are also several nice guitar songs as well. Allison does backing vocals on many of the tracks and she does a gret job at them! My favourite songs on the CD are "Northern Lights", "Angels", "Time After Time" (a guitar version of the great song by Cyndi Lauper), "Little Light", "Hold Back", "Choose To Be", "Running For Home", "When I'm Gone" and "Wedding Song"! There are a few cover versions on this CD, apart from "Time After Time", the other two great songs are "Running For Home" and "When I'm Gone. I don't know who sings the latter two songs, but I know they're great songs!
I totally recommend this CD for anyone as it is a great CD and Allison sings beautifully on it! I also want to make note here for people reading this that Allison can't be categorised into one type of music as her music takes styles from different genres.
If you have never heard of Allison Crowe, then I suggest you search for her at www.jamendo.com or go to her website at www.allisoncrowe.com!
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