Come Close

Edie Carey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 1, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Edie Carey
• ASIN: B00008RGZY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,541 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. With Our Hands

2. Oxygen? (Banter) [Excerpt]

3. Fine

4. Compromise (Be a Poet About It)

5. Come Close

6. I Love America (Banter) [Excerpt]

7. The Middle

8. If I Were You

9. Love Them Hard (Banter) [Excerpt]

10. Violently

11. Disco Ball Heart

12. Two Very Shy People (Banter) [Excerpt]

13. I Like You (Farr's Song)

14. August

15. Intro to Everyone I Know (Banter) [Excerpt]

16. Everyone I Know

17. Bandaids (Banter) [Excerpt]

18. Nothing Else

19. Black Wool Dress

20. Diamond in the Rough

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

With her warm, graceful voice and her knack for cutting "into a subject...with a diamond-edged blade**," Edie Carey grabs hold of her audiences and doesn't let go until she steps off the stage. While her songs are what first draw listeners in, it's what she says in between that keeps them coming back. Carey's wry and self-mocking humor, coupled with her ability to tell a great story, makes audiences feel as though they have just spent the evening with a very close friend. Given the triple threat of her magnetic stage presence, heart-grabbing songs, and almost unearthly voice, it's no wonder that the word about Carey is traveling fast. Performing Songwriter called her last release, When I Was Made, "a lovely, shimmering, heart-felt record"; Harp Magazine proclaimed it "bare of self-pity and full of down-to-earth revelation"; Paste declared it "vulnerable and pleasing...rich with humanity and insight."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZINGLY TALENTED, November 26, 2009

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James L. Woolridge "Wooly in PSL, FL." (Sunny Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Come Close (Audio CD)

Ok, ok, it's an older album, but I stumbled across it not long ago and more Edie Carey discs will end up in my collection. I look forward to seeing her live but with this album it is like you are with heralready. It is a live album and her banter with the audience is cool. COME CLOSE is an album to play again and again. Her voice and songs are so wonderful. Enjoy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like being at one of her shows, December 14, 2004

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JoAnn Whetsell (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Come Close (Audio CD)

Listening to Edie's live album feels like being at one of her shows, or even better, like she's in your home playing for you. Most of the songs are solo with acoustic guitar; Sam Shaber and Anne Heaton sing back up on a few. There are 16 music tracks in all: 2 songs from The Falling Places, 8 from Call Me Home, 4 new songs, 1 cover, and 1 bonus track. The rest of the tracks are banter. Edie's really funny, and I like that she's not afraid of looking weird. That unselfconscious spirit shines through on these tracks and in her choice of photographs and commentary. The album is also edited well. The banter tracks are short (most under 30 seconds) and the applause after songs is also short. Long enough to make you feel like you're at a live show but not long enough to be annoying. Did I mention that her vocals and guitar sound great too?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars edie carey is SO great, June 10, 2003

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Amanda (Newport Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Close (Audio CD)

this cd is the perfect expression of edie's humor, style and amazing talent. she not only puts together beautiful lyrics and music with both new songs (with our hands, i like you[farr's song], compromise[be a poet about it], and diamond in the ruff) and old, but she has added some of her favorite on-stage moments (banter, as she calls it) inbetween songs.
"come close: the live (photo) album" is a perfect example of edie's ability to write songs that relate to us, touch us, inspire us, remind us and encourage us to see things differently while also supplying the energy of a live show, to which no experience in my life has ever come close (no pun intended) to comparing. she magnificently uses her words creatively and originally with impressive sophistication.
her other two cds, both studio releases ("the falling places" and "call me home"), are equally impressive in both style and maturity. this lady has got it figured out.
everyone i have played her for loves her. i am so proud to be able to call this woman my friend! she is amazingly wonderful in person. could it get any better? i think not. :o)
look for her upcoming studio release, "when i was made", set to be released on august 26, 2003.