Jennifer Warnes – Another Time Another Place (Hybrid SACD)
Vocals, Backing Vocals – Jennifer Warnes [click here to see more Vinyl/SACD featuring Jennifer Warnes]
Vocals – Mike Cross
Backing Vocals – Mitch Watkins, Roscoe Beck
Accordion – Joel Guzman
Acoustic Guitar – Dean Parks, Mitch Watkins
Alto Flute – John Mills
Bass – Abraham Laboriel, Roscoe Beck
Cello – Sara Nelson
Choir – Blondie Chaplin, Jennifer Warnes, Mike Cross, Roderick Sanford, Ruthie Foster
Drums – John Ferraro, Vinnie Colaiuta
Electric Guitar – Daran DeShazo
French Horn – Tom Hale
Guitar – Gabriel Santiago
Keyboards – Red Young, Roscoe Beck, Stephano Intelisano, Stephen Barber
Mandolin – Dean Parks
Organ – Jim Cox
Pedal Steel Guitar – Greg Leisz
Percussion – Lenny Castro
Piano – Jim Cox
Resonator Guitar – Dean Parks, Greg Leisz, Roscoe Beck
Resonator Guitar, Electric Guitar – Sonny Landreth
Slide Guitar – Jeff Plankenhorn
Vibraphone – Eric Darken
Viola – Ames Asbell
Violin – Javier Chaparro, Leigh Mahoney, Tracy Seeger
Arranged by Jim Cox, John Mills, Roscoe Beck, Stephen Barber
Written by Eddie Vedder (1), Sam Coslow (2), Will Grosz (2), John Legend (3), Marcus Hummon (3, 9), Mickey Newbury (4), Arthur Schwartz (5), Howard Dietz (5), Ray Bonneville (6), Jennifer Warnes (7), Micheal Smotherman (7), Derek Trucks (8), Warren Haynes (8), Mark Knopfler (10)
1 Hybrid SACD
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : Impex Records
Original Label : BMG
Engineered by Noah Scot Snyder
Produced by Jennifer Warnes, Roscoe Beck
Remastered by Bernie Grundman
Originally released in 2018
Tracks:
- Just Breathe
- Tomorrow Night
- Once I Was Loved
- So Sad
- I See Your Face Before Me
- I Am The Big Easy
- The Boys And Me
- Back Where I Started
- Freedom
- Why Worry
Reviews :
"Singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes celebrates her 50th anniversary as a recording artist with Another Time, Another Place, her first recording since 2001's The Well. Since the 1990s, Warnes has worked only when she's wanted to -- a decade passed between The Well and its predecessor, The Hunter. In this century, she has lent her voice to recordings by Sonny Landreth, Chris Hillman, Leonard Cohen, and his son Adam Cohen. Warnes and longtime collaborator Roscoe Beck (Cohen's bassist and music director and her own producer on Famous Blue Raincoat and The Hunter), began working in Austin and Los Angeles in 2015. But a string of profound losses -- a niece, two sisters, a longtime manager, ex-boyfriend, her dog and Cohen -- sidetracked the sessions several times." AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
"Despite Warnes' Southern California roots, the country twang in her voice, so delicate and vulnerable, lends added depth to the music. Along with The Well, this LP has found a permanent spot in that part of my shelves that contains my Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Emmylou Harris records -- music I turn to when I need a break from the testosterone levels of most pop music and want to look inward. The session was digitally recorded in 2018 for release on CD by bass player and longtime collaborator Roscoe Beck, aided by mix engineer Noah Snyder, and mastered by Bernie Grundman. The Impex vinyl reissue was also mastered by Grundman and pressed at RTI. While not quite the equal in sound to The Well, it has nothing digital-sounding about it. The instruments (string, electric, resonator and lap guitars, violin, percussion, piano and organ in various combinations) all occupy well-defined spaces, and the voices (Warnes' as well as those of occasional backup singers) are three-dimensional and warm." Dennis Davis, The Audio Beat, July 2019
"Warnes' first album in 17 years reminds us how much this singular talent has been missed... Underscoring Warnes' wide-ranging talent are the cherished classics "Tomorrow Night" and "I See Your Face Before Me', where the lush string orchestration recalls Nelson Riddle... the spare arrangements are as cozy as a porch swing... Sonics on the 180-gram LP sport smooth airy highs and a full presence range. Though Warnes is in her early 70s, her voice has aged gracefully, her highest notes a bit more earthbound, yet filled with interpretive elasticity and luminance, and of course, glorious phrasing. Welcome back, JW." - Neil Gader, The Absolute Sound, October 2019
"The much-loved WArnes marks 50 years in the business with only her ninth album. For an Oscar/Grammy winner, she's happy to sing backing for others, but when she puts her name on the sleeve, the material has to match that artistic highpoint of her career: that LP's worth of Leonard cohen songs. Here she again shows her skills as a peerless interpreter, with songs by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Mickey Newbury, Mark Knopfler, et al. Warnes moves faultlessly from genre to genre, and the Bernie Grundman-mastered sound - with rich pedal steel, Hammon organ, slide guitar, a choral group and much more - makes it wholly deserving of the Impex imprint." - Ken Kessler, hifinews.co.uk, Yearbook 2019
Another Time, Another Place can compete with any of her previous releases. Jennifer's voice is still strong and incredibly soulful if not effortless and harmonically pure. Tthe overall sound is exemplary with a rhythmic vitality and coherence that will quickly grab your attention. Arrangements are more simple and nuanced than the past, but I still found that the entire album was rendered with an additional freshness and energy. My favorite tracks include several covers from the likes of Eddie Vedder ('Just Breathe'), Derek Trucks ('Back Where I Started'), and John Legend ('Once I Was Loved'). The album ends with the Mark Knofler classic 'Why Worry' from the Dire Straits album Brothers In Arms. I never thought the original could be bettered, but the magical dance between Jennifer's lush sensual voice and Gabriel Santiago's colorful acoustic guitar provides a lifelike immediacy that will warm your heart. Another killer recording and performance from Jennifer Warnes." Robert S. Youman, Positive Feedback, July 2019
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 , Discogs : 4,23 / 5 , The Audio Beat : Music 4/5, Sound 4.5/5