Anytime (Reis)

Leon Redbone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder / Umgd
• ASIN: B0002IQI2O
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,388 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Before Leon Redbone's ineffable 1975 debut, On the Track, appeared, rumors circulated that this offbeat presence was actually a Bob Dylan alter ego. Given Dylan's winning croon on his Sopranos cover of "Return to Me," the distance between the song-poet's wisdom and Redbone's friendly Tin Pan Alley exhumations has shrunk somewhat of late. Anytime, while hardly as surprising as his earliest work, finds Redbone still making small, intriguing connections between material as far afield as blackface entertainer Emmett Miller's (and later, Eddy Arnold's) classic title tune, Jelly Roll Morton's "Sweet Substitute," and "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree." Applying his pleasant Bing-meets-Jimmie Rodgers murmur to the impossibly hoary likes of "Moonlight Bay" and "Blossoms on Broadway," Redbone achieves some of the album's most indelible moments; the dream world he conjures is irresistible. Anytime's small-band jazz arrangements make it fine comfort music, with the guest clarinets of Ken Peplowski, Bob Gordon, and Dan Levinson a particularly welcome touch. Those not familiar with the pleasure Redbone can give should first buy On the Track, but longtime fans will no doubt appreciate this new addition to his discography. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Leon Is Back!, June 24, 2001

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Chris Weiman (South Portland, ME USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anytime (Audio CD)

Leon Redbone is one of my favorites and has provided a soundtrack to some of the most important events in my life. His first three (maybe four) albums are his best, and he will never be able to recapture the magic of these early recordings. But with ANYTIME -- he comes very close. This is his best album in ages. His reading of the Swift Jewel Cowboys' "Little Willie Green" is great -- his final warblings made me laugh out loud. And he does to "Moonlight Bay" what he once did to "Shine On Harvest Moon" -- he takes an impossible corny and tapped-out relic and transforms it into a strange, haunting dream. There are lots of other gems here, and everything comes together. Sigh. How lovely that he made this album -- thank you Leon.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Leon Returns, August 21, 2002

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Richard Matthews (Olean, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anytime (Audio CD)

This album is definitely for those who appreciate the classic sounds of Leon Redbone. If you were disappointed in previous recent albums that seemed to depart from the Redbone style of his early years, you will be in for a treat with this album. It sounds more like early Leon Redbone than the early albums did! A definite "thumbs up" for this one is in order.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ear Candy!, June 18, 2003

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aubreybrennen (shelby twp, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anytime (Audio CD)

O Gawd! My happy aentenna vibrated like a tuning fork when the first notes of "Anytime" burst from my speakers! Delicious, delightful, decadently different! I have other offerings from The Bone, but this cd is all sweets, all the way through. Redbone sets moods, paints vingettes with his music here. The title track "Anytime" is nostalgic and sexy somehow. "Your Feets Too Big" is sheer fun, sing it with your kids. Slow dance with your sweety in a candlelit room to "Moonlight Bay". This is a collection of charming, offbeat, amusing and gentle music for young and old. Fingers and toes will tap, shoulders will swivel, heads will nod, and you will find yourself singing along with the simple tunes involuntarily. Why fight it? Enjoy!