Very nice, but a bit I must complain

Very nice, but a bit I must complain

Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue (Audio CD)

Customer Review

The good old Van has already tried as much as it surprised almost a little that such duets come only now. And I am amazed what are there to check for names. Some of them, I admit it, are unknown to me. When I told some younger that I z. B. Michael Bublé is unknown, I harvested laughter. So what? By PJ Proby and Clare Tale I've never heard of. Cole Porter I know. But who the hell is Gregory? I mean, this little Silberling had for me a certain educational effect. Wikipedia and Van thanks be!

And now the most important thing, the music on this CD. Some duets me some lack access. Why this title with this duet partner? Some of the duets affect me somehow inhomogeneous. The duet partner act as a foreign body in the song. This is m. E. same for Bobby Womack and Mavis Staples significantly. The fit somehow not 100 -% - ig in there, especially since both its peak of singing skills have significantly exceeded. As I said: Somehow inhomogeneous round. I do not know how to put that right. Also on the duets with PJ Proby, the highly revered by me Mark Knopfler and Taj Mahal is true that.

Steve Winwood, a singer with whom I has always been a little (really just a little) quarrel. I have with him every now and then the impression that he has problems with the right tone. In duet with Van he stays more in the background, looks more like a background singer. I think it does not hurt this duet, this number belongs to me more likely to be positive surprises.

Properly managed, the duets with Joss Stone and Clare Tale. Real Real Gone with Michael Buble, something firmer in tempo than the original, to me almost a bit hectic acting, but overall I find this really great duet. And then Georgie Fame and Shana Morrison. Well, that would just be the greatest thing when the good old Van could have put the two nothing rational about. Highlight for me: The Eternal Kansas City with Gregory Porter. Just great, this piece.

Overall, of course, a very worth listening to music. Of the approximately 80 minutes has a do not only suffering. A little I've bitched, but that is bleating at very high levels.

Buy? What kind of question: Of course!

PS: My review is the 22. How wonderfully different the previously released 21! And the no. 22 resembles indeed any of its predecessors. Thank Van! You serve many tastes, but mainstream is fortunately not your thing.

Classic 14 Rank: 5/5
June 2
Good value 20 2 Rank: 3/5
January 19
Very good sound 28 Rank: 5/5
April 7
OK 14 January 1545 Rank: 3/5
December 29
From both sides "dull feeling" Rank: 1/5
January 4

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