Looking Back

Mary Black | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Curb Records
• ASIN: B000000DAK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,071 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Soul Sister

2. No Frontiers

3. Summer Sent You

4. Columbus

5. Adam at the Window

6. Bright Blue Rose

7. Looking Forward

8. Only a Woman's Heart

9. Vanities

10. The Loving Time

11. Carolina Rua

12. Ellis Island

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mary Black's Best Songs, November 26, 2001

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Irish Flair (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Looking Back (Audio CD)

I got this CD by chance at my local thrift store but I'm writing to tell you that it is worth every penny Amazon is asking for it. Mary Black has a beautiful voice that enchants and keeps you coming back for more. I actually got tears in my eyes listening her sing "Ellis Island", a song about an immigrant leaving for Amercia and saying goodbye. At the same time, your toe will tap along to songs like "Carolina Rua" and "Soul Sister". Emmylou Harris sings a duet with Mary in the well known "A Woman's Heart". And "Bright Blue Rose" is spiritually uplifting. My very favorite song on this album is "No Frontiers" where Black sings with such feeling; her voice just soars. I highly recommend this album as it has most of Mary Black's best songs up to the date it was released (1995).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars File Next To "Babes In The Wood", November 18, 2003

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Andrew Duncan (Riverdale, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Looking Back (Audio CD)

I found Mary Black back in the 90's through her very popular album "Babes In The Wood". Since then I have purchased several of her other albums but never found one that quite captured the incredible magic of "Babes"...until now. I listened to this album chasing the sunset westward on a cool fall evening and fell in love with this woman's singing all over again. The song "The Loving Time" really got to me. I need to review her discography further to find if there are more albums that strike in the same range.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A collection that soulds like an album, December 29, 2008

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K. Parsons "Hailing from the mountaintop!" (Idyllwild, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Looking Back (Audio CD)

What a gorgeous collection of music!!! This collection does sound, and read, like an album... though I've had this CD for 13 years, I just recently realized it is a compilation. Perhaps it is the way the songs are arranged, perhaps it is the strength of Mary's voice, perhaps it is the consistently excellent musicianship that weaves its way through every song... it is really all of that. The only song that seems to be a little out of place is "Carolina Rua" - but I love that song. Favorites? "Ellis Island", "Bright Blue Rose", "No Frontiers" and "Summer Sent You". I absolutely melt every time I hear Mary and Emmylou sing the duet "Only A Woman's Heart"... that is a masterpiece. "Columbus" is a somewhat strange, but pleasant song. The only song I usually skip is "Adam at the Window". For some reason that song is irritating to me. Yes, it is "easy listening" in a lot of ways, but this is soulful, meaningful music. Mary manages to address spiritual concepts in several songs without sounding preachy or religious ("Bright Blue Rose" and "No Frontiers" most obviously), and that is not an insignificant thing. One of my favorite mellow CDs and one of my overall favorites, period.