Live from Central Park [Live]

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This is how a live album should sound--full of irony, crackling energy, and stellar guest pairings. Those who looked askance when Sheryl Crow--never a girl's girl--joined Lilith Fair for 1999 may develop a different perspective after hearing Central Park. After all, Lilith allowed Crow to share mascara wands and bond with Chrissie Hynde, the Dixie Chicks, and Sarah McLachlan, and they all dropped in for her concert at Central Park. Hynde makes "If It Makes You Happy" into the ultimate bad-girl song, and when Stevie Nicks takes over on "Gold Dust Woman," you can almost feel the wind whipping through her witchy hair. But while Dixie Chick Martie Seidel's fiddle gives "Strong Enough" an authentic country feel, Natalie Maines's leaden vocal drags the scathing feminist tract down to a greeting-card level. And a grizzled-sounding Eric Clapton serves up a tired version of the Cream's "White Room." But Crow is in peak form throughout the 14 songs, exposing herself as a rocker in sheep's clothing who's more than up to the task of taking on the Mick Jagger role in an edgy version of the Stones' "Happy," with Keith Richards as her sidekick. --Jaan Uhelszki

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Live from Central Park [Live]

Average customer rating: Note to record company: please release the DVD! A major letdown Sheryl with Rocks royalty One of the Greatest Live Albums Out There with friends like these....

Live from Central Park Sheryl Crow Manufacturer: Interscope Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Live Albums | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Live Albums | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Alternative Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: C'mon, C'mon Sheryl Crow The Globe Sessions Tuesday Night Music Club Wildflower ASIN: B00003L4DJ Release Date: 1999-12-07

Tracks:

1. Everyday Is A Winding Road
2. My Favorite Mistake
3. Leaving Las Vegas
4. Strong Enough
5. It Don't Hurt
6. A Change Would Do You Good
7. Gold Dust Woman
8. If It Makes You Happy
9. All I Wanna Do
10. Happy
11. The Difficult Kind
12. White Room
13. There Goes The Neighborhood
14. Tombstone Blues

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This is how a live album should sound--full of irony, crackling energy, and stellar guest pairings. Those who looked askance when Sheryl Crow--never a girl's girl--joined Lilith Fair for 1999 may develop a different perspective after hearing Central Park. After all, Lilith allowed Crow to share mascara wands and bond with Chrissie Hynde, the Dixie Chicks, and Sarah McLachlan, and they all dropped in for her concert at Central Park. Hynde makes "If It Makes You Happy" into the ultimate bad-girl song, and when Stevie Nicks takes over on "Gold Dust Woman," you can almost feel the wind whipping through her witchy hair. But while Dixie Chick Martie Seidel's fiddle gives "Strong Enough" an authentic country feel, Natalie Maines's leaden vocal drags the scathing feminist tract down to a greeting-card level. And a grizzled-sounding Eric Clapton serves up a tired version of the Cream's "White Room." But Crow is in peak form throughout the 14 songs, exposing herself as a rocker in sheep's clothing who's more than up to the task of taking on the Mick Jagger role in an edgy version of the Stones' "Happy," with Keith Richards as her sidekick. --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews:

Note to record company: please release the DVD!.......2007-02-18

Crackling live energy and tremendous singing and playing - note to record company: please release the DVD!

A major letdown.......2006-11-27

I had some big expectations for this album but after several listenings, my jaw dropped to the ground and not precisely out of astonishment. Read my gripes below:

Sheryl Crow was not naive when she planned this concert so should have put out a live album performed only by her and her band and not this mess overloading with guest stars. One gets the impression that she didn't feel confident enough to play after huge audiences without outside people's help. To me it's pretty dumb.

What's up with her voice? She must be hoarse or who knows what happened, but you can't hear her without feeling like cringing - same as when the Dixie Chicks take over on vocals for Strong Enough. That voice can grate on anyone's nerves.

I'm sure most of Sheryl's fans would have liked far more an honest live album taped in a small club and with songs by her alone, not so many covers. Sheryl Crow's extra cd Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire comes to mind. Even though it only features six tracks, it's far more enjoyable than the album being reviewed in this page.

In a nutshell, skip this one unless you are the diehard fan.

2/5.

Sheryl with Rocks royalty.......2006-01-24

Sheryl Crow and friends live from Central Park is an outstanding live album.
Sheryl has surrounded herself with some of the very best musicians in the world.
She is with the Dixie Chicks doing her own version of Strong Enough. This was before the Dixie Chicks shamed themselves with a remark about George Bush.
Sheryl does many of her best known songs including, Everyday is a Winding Road, My Favorite Mistake,A Change Would do You Good, If it Makes you Happy, All I Wanna Do, and The Difficult Kind.
Among the friends are, Stevie Nicks who does Gold Dust Woman.
Eric Clapton adds White Room from his days with Cream.
Keith Richards does Happy. Sheryl also closes the concert with The Bob Dylan tune, Tombstone Blues..........This is a great CD, my only complaint is why it was never released on DVD.

One of the Greatest Live Albums Out There.......2004-11-17

This album is by far on the greatest recent live recordings. Sheryl Crow demonstrates her influence and talent by putting on an all star show with some of the biggest names in music history. Sheryl shines on her own, singing some of her great hits, but it's the duets that really make the album. My least favorite has to be the Dixie Chicks just because I can't appreciate the country flare they bring to "Strong Enough" but it's still a great version. Chrissie Hynde, one of the album's highlights, brings intense attitude to "If It Makes You Happy", still one of my favorite Sheryl songs. Stevie Nicks remains Stevie Nicks, giving more than enough emotion and flare to her own "Gold Dust Woman." Sarah McLachlan's usually soft voice comes out strong on "The Difficult Kind" and compliments Sheryl's quite nicely. My favorite rendition has to be Eric Clapton and Sheryl together on Cream's "White Room", the rock-out moment on the album. The show is complete when all the guests return to belt out Bob Dylan's "Tombstone Blues" and close the show with a definite BANG.

with friends like these...........2003-08-30

Clipped, petite and looking more like a leather bar Anne Murray, Crow drags out the hits and the `friends' for this all-star live bash. Half the album is standard issue and straight ahead stage sweat with the morning beer-buzz afficiando going it alone without a little help from her friends (All I Wanna Do, Everyday Is a Winding Road, A Change Would Do You Good, Leaving Las Vegas). With only slight variations on these overplayed originals (a sychopantic crowd and some tinkering with the rhythms) Crow's solo chores rarely rate more than a grudging ho-hum. The rest of the album is a parade of snap-on tools (Dixie Chicks, Stevie Nicks, Eric Clapton, Sarah McLachlan, Chrissie Hynde) who easily steal the spotlight from their downhome hash-slinging waitress/host. Reduced to the role of supporting guitarist, Crow butters the toast from the sidelines as femme contemporaries like Nicks (who unravels admirably on Gold Dust Woman), Hynde and McLachlan flounder about the mike in a haphazard hit (Hynde's If It Makes You Happy)-and-miss (McLachlan's The Difficult Kind) headbutt at Crow's hits. But it isn't until Clapton's suspendered, cigar-chomping husk is rolled out to update Cream's White Room that the sour stench of monstrous micalculation reaches it's devastating climax. Fresh from watering the daisies and still in his jammies, Clapton's return to the electric psychedelics of his Paleolithic past is a fumbling bumbling fiasco unleashed with the grace and finesse of a diarrhetic Brontosaurus. It's horrifying to think that this is what Cream would have sounded like if they hadn't broken up. Thank God for egos. It's almost a relief to hear Richards mindlessly croak his way through the old Stones Exile-era toss-off Happy, as if a cadaverous ex-junkie with the durability of a cockroach and nine lives would be anything but. Besides, Richards provides wonderful comic relief and criticizing his artistic capacity is as futile as pointing out the flaws in the bandages on an Egyptian mummy. The wrapper finds the entire gang, from Spanky Nicks to Buckwheat Clapton, joining hands for a bizarre entreaty with a kindergarten rendition of Dylan's Tombstone Blues - a fitting finale if there ever was one.

Average customer rating:

Apres Le Plie Lisa Harris Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00006AAUX Release Date: 2002-07-02

Tracks:

1. Slow Plie 3/4 The Way
2. Plie 3/4 I Dreamed A Dream
3. Plie 3/4 On My Own
4. Slow Tendu 4/4 Castle On A Cloud
5. Slow Tendu 4/4 Pachelbel's Canon In D
6. Slow Tendu 4/4 The Strager
7. Slow Tendu 4/4 New York State Of Mind
8. Tendu 4/4 Singing In The Rain
9. Tendu 4/4 Makin' Whoopie
10. Tendu 4/4 Tarantella
11. Tendu 4/4 On The Street Where You Live
12. Tendu 4/4 Honeysuckle Rose
13. Quicker Tendu 4/4 S'wondering
14. RDJ 3/4 Stars
15. RDJ 3/4 Goodnite Saigon
16. Fondu 3/4 Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
17. Fondu 3/4 He Loves And She Loves
18. Fondu 3/4 Polovtsian Dance
19. Frappe 2/4
20. Petit Battement 2/4 I Won't Dance
21. Petit Battement 2/4 C Minor
22. Petit Battement 2/4 D Major
23. Petit Battement 2/4 A Minor
24. Petit Battement 2/4 Stop Time
25. Petit Battement 2/4 Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
26. Adagio 3/4 Theme And Variations
27. Adagio 3/4 Unexpected Song
28. Adagio 3/4 This Masquerade
29. Adagio 3/4 Sleeping Beauty
30. Adagio 3/4 Bayadere
31. Stretch 3/4 I've Never Been In Love Before
32. Grand Battement 4/4 Climb Every Mountain
33. Port De Bras 4/4 Tell Me On A Sunday
34. Port De Bras 6/8
35. Adagio 3/4 Yesterday
36. Adagio 4/4 Papa You Can Hear Me
37. Tendu 4/4 Can't We Be Friends
38. Tendu 4/4 Theme And Variations
39. Tendu 4/4 Lady Be Good
40. Tendu 4/4 Paper Moon
41. Slow Pirouette 3/4 Alice/Skating In Central Park
42. Slow Pirouette 3/4 Angel Eyes
43. Pirouette 3/4 I'll Take Romance
44. Piroutte 3/4 Etudes
45. Pirouette 3/4 Carmen
46. Pirouette 3/4 When I'm Dancing
47. Tango Pirouette 4/4 Tango Medly
48. Tango Pirouette 4/4 Begin The Beguine
49. Jump 6/8 Ballet Mix
50. Jump 4/4 C Jump
51. Jump 6/8 C Jump
52. Jump 4/4 Rodeo
53. Boys Jump Polka In C
54. Girl's Jump Pas De Deux
55. Big Waltz Ballet Extravaganza

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Central Park Summerstage: Live from the Heart of the City Various Artists Manufacturer: Circular Moves ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Latin Music | International | Styles | Music | Compilations | Afro Brazilian | Bolero | Brazilian Jazz | Cuban | Flamenco | Latin Jazz | Mambo | Mariachi | Merengue | Salsa | Samba | Tango | Tejano General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000AA4IEY Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

1. Fair - Guster
2. Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
3. Tanguillo De Maria - Ojos De Brujo
4. Molino Molero - Susana Baca
5. Delali - Kekele
6. Your Lips - Olu Dara
7. Dande - Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
8. Olive Harvest - Simon Shaheen And Qantara
9. Get Rhythm - NRBQ
10. Bemba Colora - Celia Cruz

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From Dawn 'til Dusk 1973-1988 Manufacturer: Music Club / Zomba Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FX2N6Q

Product Description

Song listing: 1 Song Of The Whale (Part 1: From Dawn) (8:22) 2 Song Of The Whale (Part 2: From Dusk) (10:54) 3 Bois De Boulogne (5:22) 4 Ride On The Ray (5:35) 5 Poland (6:14) 6 London (14:22) 7 Le Parc "Street Hawk" (3:23) 8 Live Miles (Extract) (6:14) 9 Central Park (3:39) 10 Zeit (4:35) 11 Wahn (4:28)

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