Raven Records, Australia's premier reissue label, does it again with the first true retrospective of pop chanteuse Jennifer Warnes. While it only covers her formative and blockbuster years (it cuts off well before Famous Blue Raincoat), it nonetheless sheds light on one of the truly brilliant song stylists who, in the crystalline grain of her voice, embodied -- whether she was on the charts or not -- the true restless spirit of radio pop from the era. Indeed, she is a perfect pop vocalist...   [ read more ]

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It took Jennifer Warnes five years to construct a follow-up to Famous Blue Raincoat, and she...didn't come up with a unifying concept as simple and workable as recording a set of songs by Leonard Cohen. She did find some excellent covers, including Todd Rundgren's "Pretending To Care" and The Waterboys' "The Whole Of The Moon," that may have been new to her listeners, and got a song from Donald Fagen ("Big Noise, New York"). She also did some of her own writing and got participation fr...   [ read more ]

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It took Jennifer Warnes five years to construct a follow-up to Famous Blue Raincoat, and she...didn't come up with a unifying concept as simple and workable as recording a set of songs by Leonard Cohen. She did find some excellent covers, including Todd Rundgren's "Pretending To Care" and The Waterboys' "The Whole Of The Moon," that may have been new to her listeners, and got a song from Donald Fagen ("Big Noise, New York"). She also did some of her own writing and got participation fr...   [ read more ]

CD $33.23