25

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Average Customer Rating:	3.5
Release Date:	2010-03-09
Publisher:	Signature Sounds
Artist:	Patty Larkin
Track 1:	Lately
Track 2:	Only One
Track 3:	Open Arms
Track 4:	The Cranes
Track 5:	Closest Thing
Track 6:	Hallelujah
Track 7:	Coming Up for Air
Track 8:	Tango
Track 9:	You & Me
Track 10:	Brazil
Track 11:	Island of Time
Track 12:	Cupid's Knee
Track 13:	Home
Track 1:	Pablo Neruda
Track 2:	Beautiful
Track 3:	Booth of Glass
Track 4:	Good Thing
Track 5:	Deja Vu
Track 6:	Inside Your Painting
Track 7:	Chained to These Lovin' Arms
Track 8:	Italian Shoes
Track 9:	Here
Track 10:	St. Augustine
Track 11:	Lost & Found
Track 12:	I'm Fine
Weight:	0.14 pounds

Product Categories

General; Traditional Folk; General; CD Album; Main Albums (Discography Pages); Main Albums; All product; Music; Music

Product description

2010 marks Patty Larkin's 25th year of recording music. Follow her musical journey as she reworks 25 love songs from 1985-2010 with the help of 25 very special guests including Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Rosanne Cash, Martin Sexton, Dar Williams and many more. A specially priced 2 CD set.

Customer reviews

« 5 star »

Shades of life and love w/ a beautiful voice holding hands w/ friends. I love it!

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-06-02

« Disappointed »

I heard about this CD on NPR. Like many radio reviews it would seem they played the best on air. When I played this double set I was disappointed. While I like Patty's layed back style and warm voice I was bored to tears. Each cut was so much like the previous one it was as if I was listening to one very long, continuous song.

Rating: (1 out of 5) @ 2010-05-24

« disappointing »

Not a follower and bought this based on reviews. If there had been deeper collaboration and real duets, this would win, as it is stellar "friends" merely accompany.

Rating: (1 out of 5) @ 2010-05-19

« Mesmerizing Pairings »

Patti Larkin's "25" spans her career with 25 singer-songwriter friends re-recording songs with her, among them Shawn Colvin, Rosanne Cash, Bruce Cockburn, Suzanne Vega and Janis Ian. More musical partnerships than duets, these songs entrance.

Performance highlights include the powerful "St. Augustine" with Beppe Gambetta, "Brazil" with Chris Smither, "Good Thing" with Dar Williams, and "Chained to These Loving Arms" with Mary Chapin Carpenter. Even quieter songs (such as "Booth of Glass," with Peter Mulvey, and "The Cranes," with David Wilcox) transfix with their lyrics.

A mesmerizing treatment throughout, those new to the artist will be rewarded in turning next to her live album "In the Square" for earlier incarnations of "25"'s book-ends, "Lately" and "I'm Fine," and to "A Go-Go" for a more recent live set. Thank you, Patti, for the first 25!

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-05-01

« A generous, stripped down collection of great songs »

Released in January '10, the theme here is simple - 25 songs reworked in a stripped-down solo acoustic format with 25 friends/music cohorts to celebrate 25 years of making music. Larkin is a contemporary folk troubadour whose long resume speaks for itself. 25 is an intimate recording, bare-bones in its delivery, which is refreshing, and the 25 selected songs are some of Larkin's best over the years. The inclusion of "friends" such as Greg Brown, Catie Curtis, Bruce Cockburn, John Gorka, Merrie Amsterburg, Martin Sexton, Shawn Colvin, Chris Smither, etc. makes it all the more interesting.

GENRES: Contemporary Folk.

BUY IF YOU LIKE: Patty Griffin, Sara K, Dar Williams.

Rating: (4 out of 5) @ 2010-04-03

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