Classic Vanessa Williams for a Saturday slowdown – the title track from her hit 1992 album The Comfort Zone. Continue reading “Saturday Slowdown: Vanessa Williams ‘The Comfort Zone’”
Saturday Slowdown: Vanessa Williams ‘The Comfort Zone’
Saturday Slowdown: Eden Espinosa ‘One Song Glory’
The luminous Eden Espinosa (RENT, Wicked) brings her own vocal “glory” to this sensitive, soulful arrangement of “One Song Glory” from the iconic Broadway musical, RENT. Continue reading “Saturday Slowdown: Eden Espinosa ‘One Song Glory’”
Saturday Slow Down: Mary Chapin Carpenter ‘John Doe No.24’
I’m listening, again, to one of my very favorite songs of all time. The simplicity of the guitar-driven track and the slow, deliberate tempo create the perfect soundscape with which to tell the poignant story of “John Doe No. 24.” Continue reading “Saturday Slow Down: Mary Chapin Carpenter ‘John Doe No.24’”
Saturday Slowdown: Betty Buckley ‘Souvenir’
Tony Award winner Betty Buckley sings Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Souvenir” set to music by Ricky Ian Gordon and played on the piano by Kenny Werner. The delicate arrangement, brimming with emotion, was a collaboration between Werner and Buckley. “I love this poem and the song,” says Buckley. And the connection is apparent in her deeply human, artful performance. Miss Betty contributed the recording as part of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Challenge. If you look up the definition of the word “sublime”…
Showtune Slowdown: Eden Espinosa “One Song Glory”
The luminous Eden Espinosa brings her own vocal “glory” to this fantastic arrangement of “One Song Glory” from the iconic Broadway musical, RENT.
From Eden’s CD Look Around.