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- Date Released: December 16, 1965
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Avant-garde
- Label: ESP'Disk
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We Say...
If you don't already know Waters, discovering this 1965 album will be like making a new best friend. The singer, whose overcast voice suited her fraught subject matter, was an abstract expressionist of music, cutting away all that was superfluous to get to the emotional core. "Why Can't I Come to You," a song about loving someone from afar, is skeletal in its simplicity, and it's just one of seven taut, spectral and highly distilled gems on an under-appreciated record whose visceral appeal cannot be denied. Still, it must be said that the eighth and final track, Waters' primal rendition of "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" — at times she sounds like a tea kettle at full boil — is strictly for those wondering about Yoko Ono's influences.
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They Say...
An album that could have just as well been titled The Two Sides of Patty Waters, divided between seven short, almost minimal, whispery piano ballads and the 13-minute outburst of "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," in which Waters unveils her arsenal of vocal improvisations. Building from haunting, barely audible moans to angst-ridden bleats, it is the performance that established her as a vocal innovator, albeit one that was too edgy for most listeners.
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| 01. |  |
Moon, Don't Come Up Tonight |
2:59 |  |
| 02. | |
Why Can't I Come to You |
2:51 | |
| 03. | |
You Thrill Me |
1:21 | |
| 04. | |
Sad Am I, Glad Am I |
1:24 | |
| 05. | |
Why Is Love Such a Funny Thing |
1:11 | |
| 06. | |
I Can't Forget You |
1:48 | |
| 07. | |
You Loved Me |
2:28 | |
| 08. | |
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair |
13:58 | |
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- Burton Greene - Piano // Burton Greene - Piano // Burton Greene - Harp // Burton Greene - Harp // Burton Greene - Pianoharp // Burton Greene - Pianoharp // Patty Waters - Piano // Patty Waters - Arranger // Patty Waters - Vocals // Patty Waters - Main Performer // Richard Alderson - Engineer // Steve Tintweiss - Bass // Charles Stewart - Photography // Charles Stewart - Cover Photo // Hans Schreiber - Liner Notes // Tom "Tornado" Klatt - Liner Notes // Bert Glassberg - Art Direction // Tom Price - Percussion
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