Blue Roses [Import]

Rita MacNeil | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Luprock
• ASIN: B000231JIW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #474,769 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Floating

2. Knowing When To Go

3. Some Things Never Change

4. Memphis

5. Blue Roses

6. You Can't Go Home Again

7. Never Under 85

8. Moon Was Rising

9. Please Believe Me

10. Time and Again

Editorial Reviews

As she enters her 60th year, multi-award winning singer/songwriter Rita MacNeil presents Blue Roses, her 20th release and perhaps her most complete body of work to date. From this perspective she offers an honest and forthright collection of songs penned from experience.

The gentle piano based ‘Floating’ takes us to summers spent on the porch of her beloved home in Cape Breton sharing the heady feelings of first love while ‘Time and Again’ reminds us that dreams really do come true. There’s the New Orleans blue’s style intro of ‘Memphis’, lamenting the hopelessness of lost love; two songs ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ and ‘Knowing When to Go’- that were written in the late 80’s at the beginning of Rita’s career, and the country tinged title track, and the finality of goodbyes - Blue Roses is a diverse journey through life.

"Music is timeless and ageless," notes the legendary singer, ‘the passion I feel for what I do can’t be put aside with a number and a year. It is a big part of my life – the concerts, the touring, the letters and the joy the audience gives back to me when the music touches a chord with them."

In many ways it was this realization that brought about ‘Please Believe Me’, a signature song on the album. Life is full of second chances and when you finally find your purpose there is a wonderful peace that envelops you and stays with you through the inevitable ups and downs.

Blue Roses was recorded off the studio floor with Rita’s road family, making it a unique and very intimate experience. It’s the turn of a phrase, the warmth of a melody and the heartfelt passion in the voice.

Blue Roses marks a personal and professional milestone– it’s a celebration of love, life and experience and proof positive, that 60 is a great place to be.