Bittersweets

Dan Sefron, Eye on Hollywood
"...that little firecracker with the big voice and the awesome moves..."

Product Description
With a sweet sound that blends the best of pop and jazz, Lisa Bowman brings her audiences some of the world's most loved standards as well as some lesser known tunes that become old favorites with the first listen.

Bittersweets

Bittersweets,Lisa Bowman

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Average customer rating: Fresh and exciting Bittersweet symphonies Bittersweets You'll wish you knew them when! a hidden gem

The Life You Always Wanted The Bittersweets Manufacturer: Virt Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Chasing Mississippi Carnival These Four Walls Funnel Cloud West ASIN: B000FS2WBM Release Date: 2006-06-27

Tracks:

1. When The World Ends
2. Adam
3. Bag Of Bones
4. Long Day
5. Houston
6. Mostly Happy People
7. Burn Out My Eyes
8. Shooting Out The Sky
9. Rapture
10. Prison
11. And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Product Description

The Life You Always Wanted is the full-length debut from acclaimed San Francisco-based band The Bittersweets, whose lineup includes drummer Steve Bowman, formerly of the Counting Crows. The band had the unique distinction of opening for Train at the legendary Fillmore before the album was even released. The Life You Always Wanted charted among the Top 200 sellers in the Bay Area and went on to be named the #5 album of 2006 by the Palm Beach Post.

Customer Reviews:

Fresh and exciting.......2007-03-23

This CD is fantastic! It is amazing to me that it is not on the top of the charts all over the country. The lyrics are full of meaning (for people who like to listen to lyrics), and the vocals make you want to hear more and more. I recommend this recording to old and young music lovers alike.

Bittersweet symphonies.......2006-11-19

San Francisco five-piece The Bittersweets do a nice line in immaculately crafted pop with subtle country influences. In that respect, they are not at all unlike their more well-known peers Over The Rhine. But where OTR can at times be tasteful to the point of being sterile, The Bittersweets avoid falling into that trap with a sound that comes off warmer, more spirited and a touch more gritty.

Their debut record The Life You Always Wanted is crisp and easy on the ear and features the sweetly endearing vocal talents of Hannah Prater, whose singing style is remarkably similar to Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays) or Leigh Nash (formerly Sixpence None The Richer). Standout cut is the opening track `When The World Ends' which, like much of The Life You Always Wanted, balances down-on-luck lyrics with tight harmonies and beautiful melodies. `Bag Of Bones' and `Long Day' are two more highlights, making up a very good first half. The album's second half is good, but slightly more bereft of thrills.

For a debut, The Life You Always Wanted is hugely accomplished, well-rounded stuff, but there's still a sense that The Bittersweets best work is yet come. An exciting prospect.

Bittersweets.......2006-08-06

I purchased this album on a recommendation from a friend in San Francisco. The disc does not disappoint. Great melodies and harmonies are present throughout. At times I am reminded of Shawn Colvin or Sheryl Crow but the Bittersweets definitely can stand alone.

You'll wish you knew them when!.......2006-07-01

Catch this fantastic Cowboy Junkies/Blue Rodeo style country-folk band while you can still get close enough to the stage to see how much they love what they're doing. The songs are catchy and smart, and you can play this CD at a party or run to it on your ipod. I'm already excited for the next one.

a hidden gem.......2006-06-29

This is a sit-down album. Equal parts roots rock, country, and folk sensibility, it features 11 songs that are more than just catchy jingles. They did leave me humming them on the train to work, but that's not the full charm of the album. When I listened to them again, I realized on a closer listen that this album managed to pull off the feel of a singer-songwriter confessional. The songs could slip into cartoonish coverage of their subject matter (longing, searching, redemption), but never wallow in cheap theatrical tricks, lyrically or musically. Indeed, what struck me about the work was the fact that for a five-piece band, the arrangements were remarkably simple. The lyrics were insightful, delightfully quirky, and beautifully delivered. The album is worth buying for the achingingly gorgeous "And Death Shall Have No Dominion". A fabulous piece of work.

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The Major's Letter and Other Songs Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000A139CA Release Date: 2005-08-01

Tracks:

1. Three Sonnets from the Portuguese
2. Bittersweets
3. Me and My Song
4. The Major's Letter
5. The First League Out from Land

Product Description

Composer-pianist Gary Smart composes, performs, and improvises music that reflects an abiding interest in Americana, world musics and jazz, as well as the western classical tradition. An artist with a wide range of constantly developing interests, Smart has lived and worked in the eastern, midwestern and western USA as well as in Germany, Japan and Indonesia. He has studied with composers Yehudi Wyner, Toru Takemitsu and John Corigliano; worked with jazz composer David Baker and film composer Henry Mancini; and studied piano with Jorge Bolet, Yale scholar-keyboardist Ralph Kirkpatrick and jaz pianist Oscar Peterson. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the Yale School of Music. Dr. Smart is currently Yessin Professor of Music at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Smart talks about his relationship to songs. “As a child I learned hundreds of pop songs, the great tunes o Berlin, kern, Gershwin, Rodgers, Ellington, etc. My sense of melody, harmony, and textural inflection is as much influenced by classic American popular songs as it is by the great European art song tradition, which I love, but which I discovered only after entering college. These genres of course have much in common: primarily, an equitable marriage of words and music.…For me, a song doesn't work unless the two become one, inseparable.“ Set to poems by Elizabeth Barett Browning, Langston Hughes, Hart Crane, William Carlos williams, Sara Teasdale and Emily Dickinson, as well as a moving letter from a Civil War major to his wife, Smart's song cycles show his commitment to the song as a form of chamber music.

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Bittersweets Lisa Bowman Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00002DDQY Release Date: 2000-03-25

Tracks:

1. How Long Has It Been Going On?
2. Autumn/Autumn Leaves
3. Misty
4. Stuff Like That There
5. Tell Me On A Sunday
6. One Note Samba
7. Answer Me
8. Since I Fell For You
9. Lies Of Handsome Men
10. Don Juan
11. Never Never Land
12. Run For The Roses
13. As Time Goes By

Average customer rating:

Bittersweets ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004TCLI Release Date: 1999-09-30

Tracks:

1. How Long Has This Been Going On?
2. Atumn/Autumn Leaves
3. Misty
4. Stuff Like That There
5. Tell Me on a Sunday
6. One Note Samba
7. Answer Me
8. Since I Fell for You
9. Lies of Handsome Men
10. Don Juan
11. Never Never Land
12. Run for the Roses
13. As Time Goes By

Album Description

With a sweet sound that blends the best of pop and jazz, Lisa Bowman brings her audiences some of the world's most loved standards as well as some lesser known tunes that become old favorites with the first listen.

Average customer rating:

EP The Bittersweets , and Tim Mooney Manufacturer: Poor Valley Recording Co. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJO46 Release Date: 2005-01-01

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