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Good Friends (album)

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Released
  
1993

Our Turn to Dance (1993)
  
Good Friends (1993)

Release date
  
21 May 1993

Label
  
Chesky Records

Length
  
46:52

Artist
  
Livingston Taylor

Genre
  
Pop

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Recorded
  
April 16–17, 1993 at MasterSound, Queens, NY Genre = Pop, Folk, Jazz

Good Friends (1993)
  
Unsolicited Material (1994)

Producers
  
David Chesky, Joel Diamond

Similar
  
Three Way Mirror, There You Are Again, Livingston Taylor, Over the Rainbow, Liv

Livingston taylor good friends


Good Friends is singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor's ninth album, released in 1993.

The album is full of skillfully crafted pop songs and classics with a jazzy twist. Taylor includes several cover songs along with his own, self-penned, material. His cover of Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands" takes the original's simple arrangement (just a bluesy electric guitar, bass and drums behind Wither's voice) and recreates the song into a gospel-choir backed a cappella performance. Based on the lyrics, the Grandma of this song was a religious woman who “clapped in church on Sunday morning” and “played a tambourine so well.” He also tackles the Wizard of Oz selections, "If I Only Had a Brain" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Keeping with the Chesky Records standards, as the back-cover reads, this album was "recorded with minimalist miking techniques and without overdubbing or artificial enhancement to ensure the purest and most natural sound possible."

Contents

Good friends by livingston taylor


Track listing

All tracks composed by Livingston Taylor, except where indicated.

  1. "Out of This World" (Livingston Taylor, Maggie Taylor) — 2:45
  2. "Jacques Cousteau" (Andy Paley) — 2:17
  3. "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Charmichael, Frank Loesser) — 2:42
  4. "Carolina Day" — 3:43
  5. "If I Only Had a Brain" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) — 4:18
  6. "Grandma's Hands" (Bill Withers) — 1:45
  7. "Blind" — 3:16
  8. "Good Friends" — 3:54
  9. "Pajamas" — 2:18
  10. "Get Out of Bed" (Livingston Taylor, Maggie Taylor) — 2:57
  11. "Save Your Heart for Me" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell) — 2:43
  12. "Fifth and Vine" — 2:46
  13. "Bluer Than Blue" (Randy Goodrum)— 2:55
  14. "In My Reply" — 3:46
  15. "Somewhere over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg)— 3:40
  16. "Thank You Song" — 1:13

Formats

CD (JD097) Chesky Records
180 gram LP (JR97) Chesky Records

Songs

1Out of This World2:43
2Jacques Cousteau2:17
3Heart and Soul2:42

References

Good Friends (album) Wikipedia
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