Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer

Carrie Newcomer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder / Umgd
• ASIN: B0000WN0Y6
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,588 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Folk Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 27-JAN-2004

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Gold, January 31, 2004

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ellen j moore (elkhart, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer (Audio CD)

As it is with all high forms of art, there are multiple levels at which an artist's work can be taken. Taken at its simplest level, Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer will delight new listeners with a great representation of her work. A good CD to begin to familiarize a person with her talents.

Yet no one should be lulled into thinking this is just some collection of light stuff. Because although Carrie can sing about the funny little things in every day life like no one else, she will also grab hold of your soul once you really listen. Enter the most precious levels of Carrie's music ... her unique ability to bring listeners into awareness of what matters most. And yet she never leaves you just hanging there. Somehow Carrie delivers a grace and peace and some kind of inexplicable healing love via her music that transcends far beyond human talent. It is a gift.

Betty's Diner, as with every other CD Carrie has ever released, will take you there ... if you let it. Long-time fans (and new fans alike) will be blown away (I think) by the first song on the CD, "Toward the Horizon". The only thing better than playing it over and over and over is hearing her sing it in person. Asking yourself what that lovely - yet painful - song might mean in your own life.

My preferences in music are all over the place. I'll try listening to about anything that is recommended to me. Yet there is something about Carrie Newcomer's music that is so necessary to me - it's like coming home, no matter where we have wandered, or what we have done while we were away. Betty's Diner - it's a good place to get fed a daily dose of what we all need.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You must have this CD!, February 12, 2004

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"kc-chin" (Kansas City, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer (Audio CD)

"Betty's Diner" really is the best of Carrie Newcomer's work! Carrie has a magical gift of translating her personal experiences to feelings, dilemmas, and questions that her listeners find familiar. This collection of songs reminds us that connecting to other people is the essence of life. Fishing with our dad, reluctantly saying goodbye to our mom, holding hands with our best friend, sharing eggs and toast with a confidant, or admiring a cute bowling baby from afar--these are the important moments of life to be treasured, Carrie reminds us through her music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spice of Life!, March 4, 2004

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This review is from: Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer (Audio CD)

I am a "newcomer" to this singer but I was so impressed by what I heard. Her voice is husky but she varies her music in such a way so that most of her songs sound unique and original. I liken her at times to Mary Chapin Carpenter. I found Carrie through my searches of Jonatha Brooke, who's new CD leaves fans in angst, Indigo Girls, who's new CD has a number of bright lights within, and Lucy Kaplansky, who wishes she could come through with the variety, clever lyrics and sheer fun found in this CD. I'm not a country music fan and there's a bit too much of the twang for these ears, but the acoustic and spiritual numbers are really fine. I feel fortunate to have heard this CD and I'm anxious to get to know Carrie better.