Love Songs

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共14首歌曲

艺人: Vince Gill
语种: 英语
厂牌: MCA Nashville
发行时间: 2010年01月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Thom Jurek

Every year during the Valentine's season, major labels comb their catalogs, issuing generic compilations of love songs. Usually, they are cobbled-together messes. Every once in a while you get a collection that holds up as an album, and this set of love songs by country music chameleon Vince Gill is one of them. He compiled this set himself, and his own subtle approach to making music informs this 14-song collection, spanning the years 1990-2006; its as tastefully sequenced as it is selected. It begins with the stellar One, from the 2000 album Lets Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye. Its driven by his acoustic guitar, sparse electric guitar fills, an insistent but minimal electric piano, and a muffled drum kit with painterly Rhodes piano fills. Its a song of commitment, solidarity, and the promise of a love that becomes as it develops over time. Its the frame for this album. There are a pair of hit singles in this mix in What They Call Love, and When Love Finds You, but the emphasis here isnt on hits, its on the all-encompassing, sometimes contradictory nature of love. Gill wrote or co-wrote every tune in this batch. Because of his understatement, his exquisite taste when it comes to production, and his willingness to stretch contemporary country musics borders, he comes across as sophisticated sure, but also as genuine. The gut string guitars that open You and You Alone introduce his protagonist, who states plainly that hes willing to wait or elope in a moment. Hes aware of the consequences in every choice we have to make and hes willing to pay them. The lilting, retro bluesy, swinging jazz in Faint of Heart is a duet with Diana Krall; its about the pleasures of love thats free of cliche. Thankfully, he also included the old-school country love song The Only Love from his brilliant These Days album from 2006. Pedal steel and electric guitars, fuel this four/four ballad about the simple pleasures of loving one person for life. Gills done something that few in his field have accomplished: assembled a collection of love songs thats based on aesthetics as well as theme.

Love Songs

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