I much prefer the Jennifer Warnes, The Hunter over the Famous Blue Raincoat for recording quality. But still like the songs and material.
When you get an artrist you really like, on a well recorded, well produduced cd its magic...
The interesting thing is I have ALL the Krall stuff, including the DVD shows, concerts etc...and I generally like her singing, expertise, material and piano playing....its a total package that has worked so well.
Its just when someone deviates from the norm, its like what happened or why??
Its not bad, but for an avid fan, to notice at first that something is different, was interesting....to me it sounded flat, voice ok, but where was that 'total' Krall sound???
I would NOT recommend this to a person who hasnt heard her for the first cd etc....
It kind of also reminds me of the old Beatles stuff i grew up with, each and new album was different and there were lots of 'us' that at first didnt like that, we wanted the Beatles to just keep on blatting out those simple happy tunes...
But no, they had to do Sgt Peppers, and all the rest....
So maybe the D Krall missing piano isnt that 'big of a deal' anyhow in the scheme of things...
Glad to see the recent activity, I was wondering if anyone was stil reading the posts!!
Now back to playing with the new Oppo BD 83 toy!
All the best
Alex