I Heard It on NPR: Singers, Songs and Sessions

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  • Release Date: 03/08/2005
  • Label: NPR NATIONAL PUBLIC
  • UPC: 637402003027

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I Heard It on NPR: Singers, Songs and Sessions

1LISTENSave It for a Rainy Day / The Jayhawks 3:09
2LISTENHollywood / Kasey Chambers 3:40
3LISTENWar / Jonatha Brooke 4:11
4LISTENSweetness / Dan Bern 3:17
5LISTENEenie Meenie / Big Lazy 3:55
6LISTENFor You / Duncan Sheik 2:08
7LISTENJust Can't Last / Natalie Merchant 4:14
8LISTENThe Cranes / Patty Larkin 2:42
9LISTENShe Said It Was Destiny / Richard Thompson 3:56
10LISTENWill You Remember Me? / Rosanne Cash 2:21
11LISTENGilbert / Calexico 4:42
12LISTENHarbor / Vienna Teng 3:33
13LISTENOne Moment More / Mindy Smith 3:42
14LISTENSail Away / Randy Newman 2:41

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National Public Radio continues its safe -- but insightful -- I Heard it on NPR series with Singers, Songs and Sessions, a collection of performances from some of the genre's finest established and up-and-coming artists. Recorded live in NPR's Studio 4A, each track is impeccably produced and exquisitely played, leaving little room for experimentation. However, for every by-the-books triumph from Natalie Merchant, Rosanne Cash or Patty Larkin, there's a little gem to uncover. Former medical student turned songwriter Vienna Teng provides an affecting rendition of "Harbor," a track from her excellent 2004 release Warm Strangers while fellow pianist Randy Newman offers up a visceral and stark-naked version of the bitterly satisfying "Sail Away," but it's left-field participants Calexico whose lonely "Gilbert" fills the studio with enough mesa-lined highways and desert sunsets to render the whole affair palatable. Reverend Lee Power, All Music Guide

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