Roberta Flack - Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles (2012)
R&B, Soul, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 49:32 | 467,76 Mb
Label: Sony ATV/R.A.S./429 Records (USA) | Cat.# FTN17852 | Released: 2012-02-07
R&B, Soul, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 49:32 | 467,76 Mb
Label: Sony ATV/R.A.S./429 Records (USA) | Cat.# FTN17852 | Released: 2012-02-07
The Beatles' song catalog is one of the best-known and revered bodies of work in the whole of modern music, and the depth, variety, and timelessness of the songs this once-in-a-lifetime band produced make that catalog both a marvel and a treasure. Everyone knows these songs, and everyone knows them in the original Beatles versions. Those versions are there, shining in stone, and even when they show up in remixes like in the recent LOVE mashup, the original recordings echo unshakably in the mind. Roberta Flack knows this. On Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles, she tackles 12 of the group's songs 11 written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one written by George Harrison and she knows full well that she's dealing with the ghosts of the original versions. She knows, and she addresses it by reconfiguring the 12 songs she's chosen to sing into fascinating new shapes and arrangements, not exactly escaping the original versions, but giving them a fresh new direction by jazzy shifts in the melodies, and pinning them to inventive and very contemporary rhythms and recording techniques. Flack doesn't treat songs like "In My Life," "We Can Work It Out," and "I Should Have Known Better" like they're made of museum glass, and because of it, she stretches them into interesting new corners. Not everything works Flack singing "Come Together" could never have been a good idea but what does work, and that's most of what's here, brings these Beatles songs delightfully into the 21st century. Even though the ghosts of the original versions still echo here, they support rather than derail what Flack does with them.
~Review by Steve Leggett
Release of this album/CD: 2012, February, 7 [CD Sony ATV/R.A.S./429 Records (USA), Cat.# FTN17582 / UPC: 795041785220]
℗&©2012 Sony ATV Music under exclusive license to SLG LLC.
Made in the USA
Credits:
Backing Vocals – Jerry Barnes, Katreece Barnes, Roberta Flack, Sherrod Barnes, Tameka Simone, Vivian Sessoms
Bass – David Williams, Jerry Barnes, Nichlas Branker, Sherrod Barnes
Drums – Bernard Sweetney, Buddy Williams, Charlie Drayton*, Chris Parks, Kuhari Parker, Ricardo Jordan
Engineer, Mixed By – Roy Hendrickson
Guitar – Dean Brown, Jerry Barnes, Nathan Page, Sherrod Barnes
Keyboards – Barry Miles, Bernard Wright, Morris Pleasure, Roberta Flack, Selan Lerner, Shedrick Mitchell, Sherrod Barnes
Producer, Arranged By – Barry Miles (tracks: 5, 10, 11), Jerry Barnes (tracks: 2), Ricky Jordan (tracks: 8), Roberta Flack (tracks: 8, 12), Sherrod Barnes (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 11)
Written-By – George Harrison (tracks: 9), John Lennon (tracks: 6, 8, 10), Lennon-McCartney (tracks: 1 to 3, 11), Paul McCartney (tracks: 4, 5, 7, 12)
Tracklist:
01. "In My Life" (04:09)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
02. "Hey Jude" (03:11)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
03. "We Can Work It Out" (04:02)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
04. "Let It Be" (04:15)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
05. "Oh Darling" (04:39)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
06. "I Should Have Known Better" (03:14)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
07. "The Long And Winding Road" (04:08)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
08. "Come Together" (04:39)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
09. "Isn't It A Pity" (03:41)
(George Harrison)
10. "If I Fell" (03:24)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
11. "And I Love Him" (03:50)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
12. "Here, There, And Everywhere" (06:16)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
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See also:
Roberta Flack - First Take (1969) [1989, Japan]
Roberta Flack - Chapter Two (1970) [1989, Japan]
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly (1973) [1995, Remastered]
Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love (1975) [1991, Reissue]
Roberta Flack - Blue Lights In The Basement (1977) [1995, Remastered]
Roberta Flack - Roberta Flack feat. Donny Hathaway (1980) [1996]
Roberta Flack - Stop The World (1992) [Japan]
Roberta Flack - Chapter Two (1970) [1989, Japan]
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly (1973) [1995, Remastered]
Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love (1975) [1991, Reissue]
Roberta Flack - Blue Lights In The Basement (1977) [1995, Remastered]
Roberta Flack - Roberta Flack feat. Donny Hathaway (1980) [1996]
Roberta Flack - Stop The World (1992) [Japan]