Love, Death & Customer Service

Lauren Wood, Lauren Wood | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bad Art Records
• ASIN: B000IMV388
• 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: #330,536 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Dave Koz. Recording Artist

Lauren Wood is simply a huge talent. The immensely creative singer/songwriter... with that trademark alto... has done it again!

Beautiful, smart, sophisticated and highly recommended.

The freshest CD and voice I've heard in years. I'm a fan for life!

Product Description

A celebrated singer/ songwriter whose soothing voice has entranced millions of listeners with her hit song, "Fallen" from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, releases her much anticipated CD, Love, Death & Customer Service, a stunning suite of new songs and unreleased treasures. From the smooth jazz single, "Contradictions," to the sweeping ballad, "Cora's Theme," the college radio single, "You Gotta Love Those Guys, an inspired cover of "Time of the Season," the invitingly quirky, "Come and Live With Me," and the sweet and upbeat, "You're Mine," Lauren weaves together a hybrid form of pop, jazz, AC and funk influences to tell her story of the tribulations and triumphs of love, death and customer service - all with her signature sultry vocals and meticulously delicious sound production. The CD concludes with an ambitious opus, "Walk Towards the Light," a revelatory, eight minute look at the cycle of time -complete with gospel choir and a fadeout in quasi-military cadence. Love, Death and Customer Service is an honest, melodious, heartwarming, delightful, ironic, and truly inspiring slice of life.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars An Artist To Be Heard By All, March 28, 2007

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Lorna Dunn (Northridge Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love, Death & Customer Service (Audio CD)

If you are like me, you are always looking for that one unique voice with the lyrics and music that you want to play over and over and never get tired of hearing it. Singers, voices, and songs come and go, but Lauren stays with your soul.The first time I heard her voice singing "Fallen" on the radio, I stopped! This was a voice I wanted to hear more of. Since then I followed Laurens career and concerts. I own copies of all of her music available and can only hope every music lover will do the same. Give yourselves a treat. Get to know Lauren on her fantastic web-site and fall in love with her music. We have all been waiting for the release of this new CD. Another perfect treasure......Thanks Lauren!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lauren Wood can do no wrong, March 26, 2007

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J. Whetstone "jaws75" (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love, Death & Customer Service (Audio CD)

Lauren Wood is one of those rare gems that once you listen to her singing, you will want more and more. I have been following Ms. Wood for a very long time, and while her music releases have had some fairly long time lapses, what she does give the listening public is nothing short of pure ecstasy.

She starts out the new disk, "Love, Death, and Customer Serivce: with a tune called Contradictions, which is a wonderful piece of sultry jazz in which she wraps her smoky vocals around. Next up on the play list is Cora's Theme, in which Lauren has put lyrics to the beautiful melody found in the movie Last Of The Mohicans, and makes it a fantastic power ballad. You Gotta Love Those Guys is basically the title track of the CD, an uptempo piece of funk, all about those wonderful customer service reps. Lauren becomes very reflective in I Don't Believe In Love, a mournful tune all about lost love.

Now it's time for one of two remakes on the CD. This one takes us back to the summer of love. Time of the Season, a huge hit for The Zombies in 1967, could be an even bigger smash forty years later with Lauren's reworking of this timeless classic. The Waiting Room is another autobiographical tune for Ms. Wood, and she pulls it off with a lot of class. You're Mine, with background vocals by Stephen Bishop, would fit on any current adult contemporary radio station playlist today. 'Til Now, which features Lauren's cousin Novi on viola (Novi is prevalent throught the entire CD) is another great tune, one that you can sing along with on the very first listen. The second of the two remakes here is Can't Let Go, originally by Joan Armdatrading. Lauren puts her unique stamp on it, and if I didn't know better, I would have sworn she had originally written this tune, it sounds so much like Lauren's earlier works.

Come And Live With Me, the newest written tune on the CD, has a country feel to it, in only the way that Lauren can do it. 'Til You Let Your Heart Win, the next to last song on the CD, is my absolute favorite here. Again, if I were running radio, it would be a number one smash. It's a tune all about love that was, and now is gone, very melancholy, makes you really sit down and take the time to listen. It reminds me of all of those great Vince Guaraldi jazz tunes (in case you need some help, he did the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas, among other Charlie Brown specials).

A Beatles feeling at the beginning of the final track, and a New Orleans jazzy ending comes with Walk Towards The Light, a tune inspired by Lauren's personal feelings on the death of her father, who, by the way, was also the inspiration for How Much Is That Doggie In The Window, a huge hit for Patti Page. Her dad owned the largest pet store in Pittsburgh, Lauren's home town.

As I said in the beginning, Lauren takes her time making a CD, but when it comes out, it's all you ever want to listen to. I've purchased every CD ever released by Lauren, and I have hundreds of artists and thousands of CD's in my own personal collection. If I ever had a fire and lost everything, her catalog of work is what I would search out and replace first, before The Beatles, before Elton John, before anyone else, she is just that talented. If you haven't ordered it yet, go for it, you will not be disappointed at all. Also, check out her website [...] it is nothing short of fantastic. I thank you Lauren, for all of these great tunes, and I for one, can hardly wait for the next release. Please don't wait another 10 years.