Post by tozion on Jan 5, 2007 15:58:32 GMT -5
Billboard review:
Missing You
JOHN WAITE & ALISON KRAUSS
Label: Rounder
John Waite's first album in three years, "Downtown: Journey of a Heart" cooks up the same trick that many heritage artists are using these days: reheating the hits that made them famous—usually to ill effect. But wait: His revision of signature 1984 No. 1 "Missing You" has an appreciable twist. Recording as a duet with Grammy Award vet Alison Krauss adds a newfound tenderness to the ironic lyric "I ain't missing you at all/No matter what I say." Her vulnerable vocals, as ever, add ache to the familiar track, while Waite is in fine voice, sounding as vital as he did, gulp, more than 20 years ago. This track has the potential to add to the growing trend of pop/rock acts crossing to country; production is live-sounding, loose and could certainly make the grade there. It streets Jan. 9. —Chuck Taylor
JOHN WAITE & ALISON KRAUSS
Label: Rounder
John Waite's first album in three years, "Downtown: Journey of a Heart" cooks up the same trick that many heritage artists are using these days: reheating the hits that made them famous—usually to ill effect. But wait: His revision of signature 1984 No. 1 "Missing You" has an appreciable twist. Recording as a duet with Grammy Award vet Alison Krauss adds a newfound tenderness to the ironic lyric "I ain't missing you at all/No matter what I say." Her vulnerable vocals, as ever, add ache to the familiar track, while Waite is in fine voice, sounding as vital as he did, gulp, more than 20 years ago. This track has the potential to add to the growing trend of pop/rock acts crossing to country; production is live-sounding, loose and could certainly make the grade there. It streets Jan. 9. —Chuck Taylor
