Sweet Dreams of Home

Mae Robertson, Eric Garrison | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 1, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lyric Partners
• ASIN: B00000JYLA
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #664,703 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Home (Holly Tashian)

2. Our House (Graham Nash)

3. This Must Be the Place (Byrne, Weymouth, Franz,Harrison)

4. The Heart (Tom Russell and Greg Trooper)

5. Twilight Is Stealing (Traditional)

6. Home (Karla Bonoff)

7. Home to Me (Is Anywhere You Are) (Tom Paxton)

8. I'm Going Home (Arlo Guthrie)

9. Driving Home (Cheryl Wheeler)

10. Until We Meet Again (Dougie McLean)

11. Sweet Dreams of Home (Eric Garrison)

Editorial Reviews

From Parents' Choice®

Gentle and yearning folk songs painting images of home home. Written by Graham Nash, David Byrne, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie and others, they are sung by Mae Robertson and Eric Garrison with caressing warmth. A 1999 Parents' Choice® Silver Honor.

Reviewed by Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice® 1999

Product Description

A collection of contemporary folk songs evoking warm memories of home and reminding us that we all need a place where we belong - a place where we feel safe and secure - a place to return for comfort and encouragement. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet!, November 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sweet Dreams of Home (Audio CD)

All of the songs on this CD are about "home," and that has started some very interesting conversations in our house with our older kids. The younger ones just love the music, but so do the grwonups! How do they do it? I love this woman's voice. She is amazing! All three CDs are great!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Songs about Home, January 31, 2000

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Mary Jonas (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Dreams of Home (Audio CD)

All of Robertson's CDs are wonderful. She has an amazing voice, that's for sure. Why isn't she very very famous? She also always picks songs that make you think and appreciate your life and your loved ones. This one is all songs about home. Couldn't be better!

4.0 out of 5 stars Mae's Lovely, Cozy "Home", September 16, 2009

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Gregor von Kallahann - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Dreams of Home (Audio CD)

Mae Robertson appeared in a folk concert series I'm involved with a while back. She is every bit as warm and engaging in person as her recordings would suggest. She has assembled here something of (what used to be called) a concept album. All the material, as others have noted here, is related to the theme of "home," at least in the broadest sense. Some are well known Baby Boomer standards, including Karla Bonhoff's "Home" and Graham Nash's "Our House." These would pretty much seem to be de rigueur selections. But Robertson and collaborator Eric Garrison have done their homework and come up with lots of less well known--and some quite surprising--numbers. How many acoustic performers would even consider doing a Talking Heads' song. Robertson and Garrison pull off the avant-garde rockers' song beautifully and with only minor textual changes. It's a total recasting of the song, less ironic, more heartfelt. And it works.

Eric Garrison provides solid vocal and instrumental support throughout. And Tom Paxton shows up to provide guest vocals on his own composition "Home To Me (Is Anywhere You Are). A treat. And a sign of the kind of respect Mae has earned among the folk cognoscenti.

The "home" on a couple of the tracks, Arlo Guthrie's "I'm Going Home" and Dougie McLean's "Until We Meet Again" is more metaphorical. There's nothing new about referring to death as "going home," I suppose, but these songs are still beautiful expressions of a universally held notion. They are no less profound for being a something of a commonplace.

Mae's direct approach to her vocals makes for a style both lovely and grounded. She is a no-frills vocalist (refreshing in this day and age). This is really a well done album of well-crafted, intelligent songs. And did I mention "lovely"? Yeah, well, let me re-iterate: it's just lovely.