Remembering Patsy Cline

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B0000AYLJT
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,730 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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48 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So Wrong!!! Patsy Cline fans beware!, September 13, 2003

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Invisiboy2001 "invisiboy2001" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remembering Patsy Cline (Audio CD)

I admit I am not up-to-date about what artist is signed with what label, so I must assume that all of the artists included on this CD are MCA artists appointed to make the project more cost-efficient; that would be the only acceptable excuse for this collection. Where are the women who can really do a good Patsy Cline cover? Dolly Parton...Loretta Lynn...Emmylou Harris...Juice Newton...Rosanne Cash...Lucinda Williams? Nowhere to be seen. Bad call, MCA Records.

Natalie Cole delivers an unforgivably bad version of "I Fall To Pieces," and Norah Jones (who I usually enjoy) performs a flat, emotionless reading of "Why Can't He Be You." And luminary k.d. lang (once purported to be the "new Patsy Cline") is D.O.A. with her hapless rendition of "Leavin' On Your Mind."

On the converse, Amy Grant, Terri Clark and Michelle Branch defy the odds and deliver the three best recordings. These three artists bring aspects to the songs that the other artists ignore completely: personality, a sense of humor, and emotional attachment to the song.

Overall, this is a fair collection at best. Take the money you might have spent on this CD and pick up the newly remastered "Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits" CD. It's worth its weight in gold.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Patsy, of course, September 27, 2003

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This review is from: Remembering Patsy Cline (Audio CD)

I think this cd is getting a bad rap because people may be expecting imitations of Patsy Cline and not other interpretations of the songs she made famous. I love Patsy, but I think this cd has some wonderful artist's doing some wonderful covers. Each musician/singer brings a different perspective to each song. Natalie Cole, Diana Krall, kd Lang, and Norah Jones bring a jazz feel to the songs they sing and couldn't be done better. Michele Branch and Terri Clark give great performances that sound similar to Patsy's versions, but different enough to know that you aren't listening to Patsy herself. Amy Grant's version of Back in Baby's Arms is cute and fun. Patty Griffin and Jessie Alexander have the same sense of feeling the song as they sing it that Patsy did, even to the end of Faded Love and the gasp of breath that each include. Rebecca Lynn Howard and Lee Ann Womack sing beautifully. Martina McBride is also a beautiful singer, and this song is the only song on the whole cd that is...well interesting to say the least. The Take 6 background gives the song a DooWop feel and I'm not sure that I really like that kind of interpretation, but it is well worth listening to. All in all, I love the cd and after I hear it, I have to play the Patsy Cline version because the songs remind me how great she was as a singer/storyteller.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sacrilage, September 10, 2003

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Ken (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remembering Patsy Cline (Audio CD)

This is a travisty and a poor way to pay tribute to the worlds greatest female country singer. The artist presenting are good in their own genre but are severely embarrasing themselves in attempting to reproduce that which Patsy made infamous in her own right. I will definatley not recommend that anyone purchase this album.

Any devoted Patsy Cline fan I'm sure would feel the same.