Another Day [Extra tracks, Import]

Molly Johnson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 24, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00008LPDC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,031,300 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Summertime

2. I Must Have Left My Heart

3. Melody

4. Sweet Sublime

5. He's Got My Heart

6. Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)

7. Red Cardinal

8. Sleep In Late

9. Haunted

10. Another Day

11. Ohh Child - Redemption Song

12. Another Day (Radio Mix)

13. Bonus Track 01

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weaving the genres, August 17, 2004

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Lakeside Listener (Clear Lake, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Another Day (Audio CD)

A fine mix of jazz and.. other genres. Modern abstract, a bit of pop,some Reggae, lounge, torch, even a genuinely new take on Gershwin's Summertime. Very "together" small-group jazz+[name another genre]. Like Norah Jones or Madelyn Peyroux, she takes what she likes from just about anywhere. Must be a trend, this mixing of genres, but whoever said mixing the best of this with very good that couldn't produce fine music? The spare production helps here by letting the mix of musical shapes stand out instead of drowning in overproduced strings, horns and general excess. She doesn't have to work hard to overcome the production (the feeling one might sometimes get from, for example, Dinah Washington) so she can just let her voice roam around the arrangements, using her interpretive skills to weave a kind of effortless magic. Oddly, maybe, her delivery and choice of material at times reminds me of Julie London, whose interpretive skills were underrated by the critics of her day. But Mollie Johnson is definitely her own artist, independent, mischievous, subtle. Great fireside music, or put on a headset and shut your eyes. She'll captivate you. A fine album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars caught by track one, July 14, 2003

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omphaloskepsis "omphaloskepsis" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Another Day (Audio CD)

i came upon this CD in the listening station at a large music store. having never even heard of molly johnson before i decided to give it a listen, and from the intro to track one, the title song 'another day,' i was hooked. there's such an easy groove found here - between blues and jazz and pop even - that just sounds irresistable.

imagine my surprise when i heard molly tackle 'miss celie's blues (sister)' - a song i haven't heard since last i saw 'the color purple' which must have been about a decade ago. and her completely refreshing take on gershwin's summertime made a smile break out on my face when i realised what song it was.

to all those music lovers who've been listening to her for years, you're lucky. to those not fortunate enough to have already discovered her, buy it ASAP. she's jazzy enough, soulful enough, and completely worth it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous voice over smooth tracks...get this now!, September 12, 2005

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R. Bates "Paris Sistah Soul" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Another Day (Audio CD)

I was in Paris, dining with a wonderful friend at a quaint little restaurant on the Ile de St. Louis when I heard this voice...incredible, strong, authentic...singing Miss Celie's Blues so well, I thought I was listening to the soundtrack from the Color Purple.

The songs that followed were so lovely and enchanting, I was compelled to ask the host what was playing. He showed me the CD and as soon as I left the restaurant, I headed straight to the record store to purchase it.

The music is perfect background for dinner with friends or as an upbeat mood setter with a significant other. Buy it! You won't be sorry!