Love To Live

The Living Sisters | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 30, 2010
• Release Date: March 30, 2010
• Label: VANGUARD
• Copyright: (C) 2010 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company
• Total Length: 37:56
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• ASIN: B003BB7YTU
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,108 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the Roches, but they'll have to do for now., April 12, 2010

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Larry D (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love to Live (Audio CD)

It's been three years since my favorite living three-part-harmony sister act, The (incomparable) Roches, released their most recent album, the lush and shimmering "Moonswept"; and while I enjoyed the not-really-related Puccini Sisters for a little while, their basic gimmick (rock-era songs arranged for The Andrews Sisters) quickly wore on me. I was very much in need of a harmony fix when I happened upon "Love to Live", the debut collection by The (also-not-really-related) Living Sisters. Neither as transcendent as The Roches nor as nudge-wink cute as The Puccinis, this alt-folk supergroup (apparently Inara George, Becky Stark and Eleni Mandell are all indie goddesses, but I'd never heard of them before) reminds me most of another not-really-related sister act, The Chenille Sisters. Which is not a bad thing, by any means.

There's a mid-tempo sameness to the songs, whether original (the Suzzy Roche-ish "How Are You Doing") or cover (the Bessie Smith blues, "Good Old Wagon", Nancy Wilson's early-60s pop hit, "How Glad I Am"), which, along with the Sisters' all-but-identical pretty-but-edgeless soprano voices, makes "Love to Live" a bit sleepy. I've played it as dinner party background music; and while no one asked that I turn it off, neither did anyone ask who was singing.

After three listens, I'm still enjoying this music. But in all candor, at least one of the four stars is just because I'm glad these young ladies recorded "Love to Live" at all. At a time when I find myself complaining (often and loudly) that Country music is the last bastion of real singing (as opposed to rap and AutoTune) and real songs (as opposed to "jams" and, again, raps) in American pop music, "Love to Live" is a collection of nice songs, sung nicely. In "You Make Me Blue", they actually sing "shoo-wop doo-wop", just like in "I Only Have Eyes For You" by the Flamingos. That's cause for celebration in itself. "Love to Love" isn't quite an antidote for all that makes me cringe in current music; but it's a soothing salve.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great summer music, July 9, 2010

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billpayer - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Love to Live (Audio CD)

This CD reminds me of past summers many years ago when the music defined the summer.

Songs by the Beach Boys, the Drifters, and (fill in your favorite) made things right.

These girls own this summer for me. Great music!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great voices, June 24, 2010

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Anne M. Pontuso "AnnieP" (Charlottesville, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love to Live (Audio CD)

These women have harmony down. I find this album easy to listen to, fairly upbeat,and the voices soothing. I heard about them on NPR, otherwise I never would have found them.