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DIANA KRALL

At the outset of her career in the 1990s, Diana Krall appeared to be a throwback to a different, classier era -- specifically, the mid-20th century, when the Great American Songbook experienced a revival in the hands of singers such as Nat King Cole. Krall's 1996 breakthrough, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio, deliberately paid tribute to this period, but Krall didn't focus merely on singing the song in an old-fashioned way: as the subtitle of All for You suggested, Krall placed equal emphasis on the piano playing. It was a conscious decision that gave her music an elegance and elasticity that has served her well. Although she often returned to the classic songs written in the first half of the 20th century, Krall expanded the definition of the American Songbook to encompass bossa nova and pop/rock singer/songwriters, occasionally exploring forgotten sectors of 20th-century pop and jazz. Throughout her career, Krall has managed to balance traditionalism with a sense of stylish adventure, which has helped her retain both a jazz and crossover audience.

"WALLFLOWER"

2015    2LP       VERVE  RECORDS       0602537905928

PRINTED IN THE EU     ORIGINAL PRESSING

IN SHRINK GATEFOLD SLEEVE

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 6 02537 90592 8

Label Code: LC00383

LABEL: VERVE - BLUE LABEL w/FLOWERS ARTWORK - WHITE TEXT

Catalog on cover: 0602537905928

Catalog on labels:

DISC ONE: 0602547020727

DISC TWO: 0602547020741

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 11051 1A 0602537905928

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 11051 1B 0602537905928

Matrix / Runout (Side C, Etched): 11051 1C 0602537905928

Matrix / Runout (Side D, Etched): 11051 1D 0602537905928

On labels: rim text "℗© 2014 The Verve........Made in the EU.  LC00383 BIEM/SDRM........"

On back cover: Tracklist + some Credits

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℗© 2014 The Verve Music Group.......BMG.........Made in the EU. LC00383.....

tracklisting

Side A: CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' - DESPERADO - SUPERSTAR

Side B: ALONE AGAIN (NATURALLY) - WALLFLOWER - IF I TAKE YOU HOME TONIGHT

Side C: I CAN'T TELL YOU WHY - SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD

OPERATOR (THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT FEELS)

Side D: I'M NOT IN LOVE - FEELS LIKE HOME - DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER

  grading

RECORDS EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Diana Krall paid tribute to her father on Glad Rag Doll, the 2012 album sourced from his collection of 78-rpm records, and, in a sense, its 2015 successor Wallflower is a companion record of sorts, finding the singer revisiting songs from her childhood. Like many kids of the 20th century, she grew up listening to the radio, which meant she was weaned on the soft rock superhits of the '70s -- songs that earned sniffy condescension at the time but nevertheless have turned into modern standards due to their continual presence in pop culture (and arguably were treated that way at the time, seeing cover after cover by middlebrow pop singers). Krall does not limit herself to the songbook of Gilbert O'Sullivan, Jim Croce, the Carpenters, Elton John, and the Eagles, choosing to expand her definition of soft rock to include a previously unrecorded Paul McCartney song called "If I Take You Home Tonight" (a leftover from his standards album Kisses on the Bottom), Bob Dylan's "Wallflower," Randy Newman's "Feels Like Home," and Neil Finn's "Don't Dream It's Over," a song from 1986 that has been covered frequently in the three decades since. "Don't Dream It's Over" slides into this collection easily, as it's as malleable and timeless as "California Dreamin'," "Superstar," "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word," or "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," songs that are identified with specific artists but are often covered successfully. Krall's renditions rank among those successes because she's understated, never fussing with the melodies but allowing her arrangements to slink by in a deliberate blend of sparseness and sophistication. It's an aesthetic that helps transform the Eagles' "I Can't Tell You Why" and 10cc's "I'm Not in Love," singles that are as successful as much for their production as their song, into elegant torch songs, yet it doesn't do much for Newman's pedestrian "Feels Like Home," nor does it lend itself to the loping country of "Wallflower," which may provide the name for this album but feels like an uninvited guest among these majestically melodic middle-of-the-road standards. These stumbles are slight and, tellingly, they put into context Krall's achievement with Wallflower: by singing these songs as sweet and straight as the dusty old standards on Glad Rag Doll or the bossa nova on 2009's Quiet Nights, she demonstrates how enduring these once-dismissed soft rock tunes really are...(AllMusic)