Beneath the Covers: A Rediscovery

Gypsy Soul | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 7, 2004)
• Label: Off The Beaten Track Recordings
• ASIN: B000CA2RD6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #677,232 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

2. Nights in White Satin

3. Lovin' Me

4. Wicked Game

5. Superstition

6. Blackbird

7. One Thing

8. Still Water

9. Take Me Home, Country Roads

10. Silver Lining

Editorial Reviews

Over the course of seven albums released on its own Off the Beaten Track Records label, folk-pop duo Gypsy Soul has increasingly moved away from recording new original material, devoting two releases to holiday music (Sacred, Amazing Grace); recycling material on The Journey; and doing a live album (One Beautiful Night). In this pattern, a disc of cover songs is a next logical step, and here it is with Beneath the Covers: A Rediscovery. The choices made by singer Cilette Swann and multi-instrumentalist Roman Morykit are understandable. With the spiritual bent of some of Swann's lyrics, choices like U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin" (the latter repeated from their album Superstition Highway) reflect sentiments that echo the singer's own. She has also shown a taste for examinations of romantic turmoil, and Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" is in that vein. The Beatles ("Blackbird") and John Denver ("Take Me Home, Country Roads") are obvious touchstones for any contemporary folk act, and Gypsy Soul manages to drain some of the pop sentimentality out of the Denver song. The more interesting selections are Daniel Lanois' relatively obscure "Still Water" (it was introduced on his album Acadie) and Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," which is completely overhauled in an arrangement that suggests what it might sound like in the hands of Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal. Swann and Morykit also cover themselves, resurrecting "Lovin' Me" from their debut album, Test of Time, in a simpler arrangement. And if they have taken to putting only a couple of new songs on their albums, they seem to be making a point of picking the best ones. "One Thing" and especially "Silver Lining," which closes the disc, are strong originals that suggest it may be time for a Gypsy Soul album of all-new material again. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love all their music!, May 30, 2010

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Michelle Fairchild - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beneath the Covers: a Rediscovery (Audio CD)

I love Gypsy Soul's music. I also have the cd Wanderlust which doesn't appear to be available on Amazon yet. I am so looking forward to the new release called Grace and Tranquility. I am also thrilled to be seeing them in concert on Sunday June 13th when they open up the Britt Music Festival in Jacksonville, Oregon.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brewfish Beneath the covers, May 29, 2010

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Anna M. Johansen "brewfish" (seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beneath The Covers: A Rediscovery (MP3 Download)

A great album to wet your appitite for Gypsy Soul.
The album is full of songs we know done in a soulfull way.
You won't be disiponted, but will come back for more