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Whistle Stopper - Breakfast in Bed
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $12.77
Your Save: $ 6.21 ( 33% )
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Manufacturer: Time Life Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0610583207026
Label: Time Life Records
Manufacturer: Time Life Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Time Life Records
Release Date: 2007-05-22
Studio: Time Life Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Great
Comment: Great Kick back and relax music. Joan does a wonderful job on this album! My fav is Eliminate the Night
Customer Rating:
Summary: Her Best
Comment: It is my opinion that this if Joan's best work. It is very soulful, and the sound is great. I would highly recommend this cd to anyone. I have played it over and over again. I wish that I could get it in SACD.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lovely...
Comment: This is a delicious collection of covers, many of my favorite songs sung the way they were created. While it is unoriginal in its arrangements I admit that I would have been disappointed if Osborne had recreated the songs in some new formation. The old songs sung the old way, wonderful.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Quality Vocalist
Comment: This album was not exactly what I was hoping for but still is a very enjoyable music experience.
Customer Rating:
Summary: slightly disappointed
Comment: I love Joan Osborne, but am slightly disappointed in this cd. There are probably 4 REALLY good songs and the remaining ones are so-so to not good. I wouldn't recommend this cd unless you think 4 songs are worth the price.
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Editorial Reviews:
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On Breakfast in Bed, her first release on Time Life Records (yes, that Time Life) Joan Osborne tackles a crop of hand-picked soul and R&B favorites with equal parts sass and sensitivity. Long an underappreciated artist, Osborne is a performer with the wisdom to exercise vocal restraint for an effect that's more Dusty Springfield than Christina Aguilera. Her fine previous outing interpreting soul standards was aptly titled How Sweet It Is, and witness her contribution to the terrific 2002 film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, where Osborne's astute readings of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" and "Heatwave" outshone performers like Ben Harper and Gerald Levert (happily, both songs are included here). The title track and Hall and Oates' "Sara Smile" are both canny choices that play to her strengths in delivering credible blue-eyed soul, and six new Osborne-penned songs fit neatly into the record. If her compositions pale a bit next to the classics she covers (with the sultry and slithery exception of the excellent "Eliminate the Night"), give Osborne credit for bravely placing herself side-by-side with songwriting luminaries like Holland-Dozier-Holland and Bill Withers. Breakfast in Bed makes for a leisurely listen on a sunny Sunday morning, so put up your feet and stay awhile. --Ben Heege
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