Raw Silk

1. Hallelujah Glory Hallelujah
2. I Can't Get You Off My Mind
3. I'm Under the Influence of You
4. Over My Head
5. Desperado
6. Take It Away From Her (Put It on Me)
7. Single Woman, Married Man
8. Half Steppin'
9. This Man
10. At Last
11. I Stand Accused
12. Declaration of Love
13. Someone to Believe In
14. Endlessly
15. Love Is Like a Newborn Child
16. Where There Was Darkness
17. Nobody
18. I Hope You'll Be Very Unhappy Without Me
19. I Got Myself a Happy Song
20. Just to Keep You Satisfied
21. Blue Mood

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NOT HER USUAL.......2007-02-06

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I'm Ready - Cd Single - Size 9 Size 9 Manufacturer: VUM Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KK3IZY

Product Description

Average customer rating: Masterpiece All Time Favorite! One of the best female vocals THIS is Randy's soul masterpiece. Highly Underrated!

Raw Silk Randy Crawford Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Everything Must Change Feeling Good Windsong Nightline Now We May Begin ASIN: B000006XUQ Release Date: 1994-05-17

Tracks:

1. I Stand Accused
2. Declaration of Love
3. Someone to Believe In
4. Endlessly
5. Love Is Like a Newborn Child
6. Where There Was Darkness
7. Nobody
8. I Hope You'll Be Very Unhappy Without Me
9. I Got Myself a Happy Song
10. Just to Keep You Satisfied
11. Blue Mood

Album Description

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Masterpiece.......2004-09-19

All Time Favorite!.......2004-03-18

One of the best female vocals.......2003-12-31

THIS is Randy's soul masterpiece........2003-03-11

Song for song, lyric for lyric, and note for note -- this album belongs in everyone's collection, no matter WHAT type of music is your favorite. You may be in for a shock if you're used to the laid-back Randy, just as I was...but what a pleasant shock it will be! If you remember when she covered Stevie Wonder's "Joy Inside My Tears" in 1995, and it sounded like she was about to let it loose then, you'll have an idea what this entire album is about...except she chooses to actually LET it loose here.

I disagree that Randy's own composition is a dud, because all of the songs are gems. There is enough variety and depth here to keep the listener from ever getting bored, and not one of the songs is over-produced (something that occasionally happens on her recent recordings).

I am confident that you will enjoy this album, and it will probably leave you wishing that Ms. Crawford recorded more music of this nature!

Highly Underrated!.......2003-02-18

Average customer rating: Great track for the dance floor

Do It to the Music Raw Silk Manufacturer: Golden Dance Class. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: El Coco - Greatest Disco Hits ASIN: B00000AQFQ Release Date: 1993-06-21

Tracks:

1. Do It to the Music
2. Just in Time

Customer Reviews:

Great track for the dance floor.......2002-06-03

Average customer rating: Not exactly "wiminsý music"

Lesbian American Composers Manufacturer: Composers Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000006HHZ Release Date: 1998-05-19

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Not exactly "wiminsý music".......2001-05-09

The ten tracks on this disc are all comparatively recent compositions (or at least revisions) and come from the hands of (mostly) American women composers, who range in age from 28 to 72. As one might expect, the collection encompasses a wide range of musical styles and aesthetics, from "Raw Silk (a Rag) - a rather straightforward piano rag by "Nurit Tilles' - to Ruth Anderson's hilarious "SUM (State of the Union Message)" - a tape collage of snippets taken from old American TV commercials.

Also as might be expected, Pauline Oliveros provides the most politically challenging work. Her opening "Poem of Change" appears to be a fairly simple work for voice and sonic events but is, none the less, every bit as thought provoking and disturbing as only Oliveros can be. Annea Lockwood's setting of Joy Harjo's poem, "I Give You Back", for solo vocalist, comes a pretty close second, though. In contrast, "Barbie's Other Shoe", an improvisation by Lori Freedman on half clarinet and Marilyn Lerner on piano, has considerably less bite and acerbity than the title might suggest. Also disappointing is Linda Montano's "Portrait of Sappho", which for me quickly descends into a tedious enumeration of body parts.

Amongst the strongest "straight" works (if I can use such a term within the context of this disc), "I Want to Live" is a duet taken from Act II of Paula M. Kimper's opera, "Patience and Sarah". This work is based on a novel by Isabel Miller and is described by the composer as the first opera to present a hopeful and positive portrayal of lesbian life. Musically, it is a fine example of contemporary classical music theatre. Jennifer Higdon's "running the edgE" is a similar example of good, solid, contemporary classical music - a fast and furious duet for flutes, with piano accompaniment.

For me, however, the two most rewarding works on the disc are the tape pieces, "Wolf Chaser", by Eve Beglarian, and Madelyn Byrne's "Winter". "Wolf Chaser" is a powerful and entrancing mix of sonorities, derived from slowed-down recordings of a wolf-chaser, together with miscellaneous additional processed sound samples and a driving, yet lyrical, violin line. It is the longest work on the CD, unfolding in a leisurely but assured manner throughout its 14-minute duration. The sparse and cold electronic textures of "Winter", on the other hand, derive from computer-processed samples of the sounds of bowed crotales, mixed with vocal samples, drawn from Marlin Serner's rendition of a haiku by Basho, which forms the centre-piece to this enthralling work.

All in all, this is a fascinating survey of the current state of some much-neglected areas of contemporary music.

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Raw Silk Elizabeth Edwards Manufacturer: Ladybug Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA93IS Release Date: 2001-10-23

Tracks:

1. I'm Asking You
2. Almost Over
3. Butterfly
4. Faith
5. What Would Love Say
6. I'm Not Giving Up
7. Jimmy
8. Big Strong Man
9. Crystal Ball
10. Misty Lullaby

Average customer rating: Oh, What a surprise!

Raw Silk Manufacturer: Isona ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000G1OJ Release Date: 1998-12-01

Tracks:

1. i want to thank you
2. jump start
3. such a simple thing
4. bittersweet
5. today
6. poolside
7. summer tides
8. new shoes
9. quiet day of love
10. softly spoken

Customer Reviews:

Oh, What a surprise!.......2001-10-23

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Raw Silk ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009K91EM

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Raw Silk Manufacturer: Patricia Adams ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA7RUY Release Date: 2005-04-05

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Raw Silk Randy Crawford Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A2PMSS Release Date: 2001-12-05

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