Tidings | 
 enlarge | Artist: Allison Crowe
Creator: Allison Crowe
Label: Rubenesque Records Ltd.
Category: Music
Buy New: $13.98
Rating:  14 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 634479813825
EAN: 0634479813825
Release Date: November 11, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | It Came Upon a Midnight Clear | | • | River | | • | Hallelujah | | • | Silent Night | | • | In the Bleak Midwinter | | • | What Child Is This | | • | Let It Be | | • | The First Noel | | • | In My Life | | • | O Holy Night | | • | Shine a Light | | • | Angel |
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Album Description
On winter's eve in Canada, Allison Crowe took her seat at the piano and made this music. Tidings unites traditional carols and not-so-traditional songs, all warmly and passionately interpreted through artistry of Allison (and, on three tracks, her trio) in a live, studio, setting. The sounds of this session have been captured, simply and faithfully, by Engineer & Producer Larry Anschell (Pearl Jam, Sarah McLachlan, k-os) Peace on Earth ~ goodwill toward all. Tidings!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Mesmerizing, uplifting August 5, 2008
H. Mears
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Allison Crowe has the most amazing voice I've heard in almost 40 years of concert-going. Her Tidings versions of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Joni Mitchell's River, The Beatles' In My Life, as well as renditions of traditional carols, such as Silent Night, are definitive and, simply, beautiful. (It's simple music as in pure. There is virtually no production and very little instrumentation apart from voice and piano on this CD.) Crowe's sound is powerful, yes, but, really, it's also the distinctive texture, timbre and color of her voice that makes for the intense joy in her music. Her piano-playing equally is strong and moving. This album is a modern classic. I'm thankful to discover an artist with such immense talent and taste - especially today!
 big gun poorly aimed July 29, 2008
Murray Maclachlan
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
An on-line review recommended Allison Crowe's version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah as the best of the cover versions. It's not. Crowe has a powerful voice and excellent taste in her material, but her approach lacks either sufficient bombast or sufficient subtlety to be comparable with Janis Joplin or Kate McGarrigle. These are plain and predictable readings of good songs and have the sense of a talent being squandered.
"Music for the season and all time" November 18, 2007
Adrian (an island off Canada's Pacific coast)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tidings grows in popularity each year. As noted, the album contains traditional carols and songs of the season, alongside not-so-traditional songs from the secular, popular music, canon. The music, passionately performed by a singer and pianist of rare beauty, is simple and powerful. This collection, called "the Yule-tide find of the year" by a Canadian reviewer, has proved to be popular year-round - as well as during Christmas season. It's recorded most naturally, live-off-the-floor, on Winter's eve in Canada.
Deeply moved. March 2, 2007
B. R. Leone (N. Colo, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Received this as a gift over the holidays, and wow.... just, wow. Allison's singing is remarkable in a way that is difficult to put to words. There's an essence to her singing, a vitality that you can appreciate only in the experience. It hit me while sitting in a candle-lit living room on a cold night sipping tea with my lover, and finding that we both were suddenly moved nearly to tears by this great CD. (Yes, I'm referring here to the hauntingly good rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah").
The song selection is great (doesn't hurt that Allison's included "In My Life" -- one of my favorite Beatles songs), and this has certainly made it into my stack of favorites. Buy it. You won't be disappointed.
So beautiful... December 16, 2006
E. Smart (New England)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
One of the most beautiful Christmas albums I have ever heard. You have to hear her sing Angel. Her music will take your breath away. If you like Sarah McLachlan, you'll like this.
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