Sarah Jane Morris - Love and Pain & After All These Years (2003/2006)

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Artist: Sarah Jane Morris
Title: Love and Pain & After All These Years
Year Of Release: 2003/2006
Label: Fallen Angel / IRMA
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Soul, Blues, Pop
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log)
Total Time: 3:28:35
Total Size: 359 mb / 1.32 gb
WebSite: Album Preview

:: TRACKLIST ::

2003 - Love and Pain
01. Sarah Jane Morris - Love and Pain (4:38)
02. Sarah Jane Morris - I Get High (4:14)
03. Sarah Jane Morris - Cowboy Junkies (3:56)
04. Sarah Jane Morris - Innocence (3:58)
05. Sarah Jane Morris - Nothing Comes From Nothing (3:39)
06. Sarah Jane Morris - Arms of an Angel (4:59)
07. Sarah Jane Morris - Mad Woman Blues (3:42)
08. Sarah Jane Morris - 'It's Jesus I Love' (4:01)
09. Sarah Jane Morris - Blind Old Friends (3:46)
10. Sarah Jane Morris - Once in Every While (3:16)
11. Sarah Jane Morris - A Horse Named Janis Joplin (5:21)
12. Sarah Jane Morris - Fields of Wheat (5:54)

Chanteuse Morris is both English and classically trained, facts that may not be readily apparent in her adventurously disparate takes on traditional American soul and R&B forms. Bolstered with feminist zeal from the opening bars of "Mad Woman Blues," yet illuminated with a clear-eyed humanism that's not above gentle jabs of self-deprecation, Morris gives refreshing, clear-eyed spins to the album's titular concerns. Her voice impressively morphs from gritty blues and the sass of "Blind Old Friends" and "A Horse Named Janis Joplin" through jazzy sophistication ("Arms of an Angel"), weary cabaret detachment ("Innocence") to the breathy club-cool of "Nothing Comes From Nothing." Just as rewarding are the accomplished production and adventurous musical touches (that span gospel and folk to nervous electro-club and savory world beats) she's framed the collection's songs with. Rich, often surprising--and including everything from African chants to electric sitar--those disparate elements are integrated into a spare, less-is-more sophistication that illuminates much of Morris's masterfully understated gem of an album. --Jerry McCulley

Sarah Jane Morris - Love and Pain & After All These Years (2003/2006)

2006 - After All These Years

01-01. Sarah Jane Morris - Me and Mrs Jones (Bossa version) (3:30)
01-02. The Jazz Renegades - Do It the Hard Way (4:08)
01-03. Sarah Jane Morris - Never Gonna Give You Up (5:31)
01-04. Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way (4:31)
01-05. Sarah Jane Morris - Ever Gonna Make It (5:00)
01-06. Sarah Jane Morris - Piece of My Heart (live in Rome) (7:30)
01-07. Sarah Jane Morris - Sunny (4:55)
01-08. Sarah Jane Morris - I'm Missing You (5:22)
01-09. Sarah Jane Morris - River Man (unreleased) (3:52)
01-10. Sarah Jane Morris - Butterfly (2:36)
01-11. Sarah Jane Morris - Mercy, Mercy Me (4:59)
01-12. Sarah Jane Morris - Only to Be With You (3:52)
01-13. Sarah Jane Morris - Mad Woman Blues (3:39)
01-14. Sarah Jane Morris - Move on Up (live in Montreal) (4:17)
01-15. Sarah Jane Morris - I Don't Want to Know About Evil (live in Rome) (4:18)
01-16. Sarah Jane Morris - The Right Track (4:58)
01-17. Sarah Jane Morris - Cowboy Junkies (3:55)
01-18. Sarah Jane Morris - Don't Smoke in Bed (1:10)

02-01. Sarah Jane Morris - I Get High (live in Rome) (6:40)
02-02. Sarah Jane Morris - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (live in Montreal) (4:06)
02-03. Sarah Jane Morris - Fragile (live in Rome) (6:32)
02-04. Sarah Jane Morris - A Horse Named Janis Joplin (5:20)
02-05. Sarah Jane Morris - Heaven (5:45)
02-06. Sarah Jane Morris - Chelsea Hotel (3:04)
02-07. Sarah Jane Morris - Innocence (3:56)
02-08. Sarah Jane Morris - Tomorrow (4:22)
02-09. Sarah Jane Morris - She's Leaving Home (5:54)
02-10. Sarah Jane Morris - Fields of Wheat (5:49)
02-11. Sarah Jane Morris - It's Jesus I Love (Max Sedgley remix) (4:38)
02-12. Sarah Jane Morris - Nothing Comes From Nothing (Atjazz remix) (5:00)
02-13. C:Real - Visions of You (4:02)
02-14. Sarah Jane Morris - Don't Believe (The Republic) (5:41)
02-15. Mornington Lockett - Don't Go to Strangers (5:30)
02-16. The Happy End - On Suicide (2:28)

If anyone understands anthems it's flame-haired, mahogany-voiced Morris. With the Communards she rebooted Thelma Houston's disco hymn 'Don't Leave Me This Way' to a global number one in 1986, and scored a BBC ban for her lesbian-kissed 'Me and Mrs Jones' three years later. This 2-CD retrospective offers a bossa version of the latter (with Marc Ribot on guitar), but is mainly a showcase of Morris's talents as jazz diva, as she explores Nick Drake, Chet Baker and Brecht with tenderness and grit. Her 'Mad Woman Blues', a tale of tragic cross-dressing, adds a shiver of modern pathos.

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