Very Best of The Phoebe Snow [Original recording remastered]

Phoebe Snow | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00005NBZH
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,116 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The first and only career-spanning collection for this hallowed heroine of the early-'70s Greenwich Village scene! The original single version of her breakthrough hit Poetry Man , released on the Shelter label in '75, joins her Columbia hit Shakey Ground plus All Over; Don't Let Me Down; Never Letting Go; Something Real ; two unreleased live tracks recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1977, and more!

Customer Reviews

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Singer/Songwriter You Never Heard of..., October 1, 2003

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Kenneth M. Gelwasser (Hollywood, Fl USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of The Phoebe Snow (Audio CD)

I originally got into the music of Phoebe Snow thanks to singer, Linda Rondstadt. A few years ago I acquired a video tape featuring various Ronstadt peformances from over the years. One of the clips featured a 1978 "Saturday Night Live" appearance where Linda dueted ("The Married Men", "In His Kiss") with another singer named, Phoebe Snow. Well it was love from the first time I heard Snow's voice.It is an amazing instrument that is sensitive, velvety and mellow one moment and is muscular with rip roaring power the next.As an artist, Phoebe Snow seems to be able to tackle everything from folk ("Poetry Man") to pop ("Every Night") to gospel ("Good Times") to R&B and soul ("Shakey Ground", "At Last"). No wonder the recording industry could never catagorize her.She is both a talented songwriter and a musical interpreter. Originally I had the CD "The Best of Phoebe Snow", which I listened to all the time. But recently I've moved on to "The Very Best of Phoebe Snow". The main difference between these two 'best of' CDS? "Very Best" has six more cuts (some of them live performances) and remastered sound. Give a try to this CD and you to will become addicted to this amazing voice.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Launching Pad, March 4, 2005

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Fred McGhee "fredmcghee" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of The Phoebe Snow (Audio CD)

Is this truly "the very best" of Phoebe Snow? With any artist that is as great and influential as her that is always going to be a subjective question. Yes, you'll find the hits (Poetry Man), the covers, and some previously unreleased versions of Harpo's Blues and Good Times (both live versions). But the original albums, like their contemporaries (Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, etc.), so vividly convey the heydey of the 1970's singer-songwriter inspiration and cultural/musical interblending that has so badly gone in the wrong direction since.

There is no substitute for the originals; they'll bring you back to a place when music truly meant something and changed lives. Thirty years later, Phoebe's sound is still quite distinct and stealthily sophisticated.

This is a great introduction to Phoebe Snow, who is clearly going to get the love and appreciation that she has had coming to her in upcoming years. People like Norah Jones very clearly are fishing downriver from people like her.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When will Phoebe release a new CD? I MISS her!, March 18, 2002

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Jane E. Hinz (Douglas, Wyoming United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of The Phoebe Snow (Audio CD)

Having been a Phoebe fan for years and years, I have been
getting my "Phoebe Fix" via her commercials on TV - but hey,
Phoebe's got fans out here that would love to have a new CD to look forward to! I just got "The Very Best Of...", and, yes, it surely IS the very best! Shakey Ground, Do Right Woman, Teach Me Tonight, Two Fisted Love - and the bonus: At Last - phew!
I've finally replaced the old 8 tracks and cassettes, and am ready for more! Does anyone know if she ever tours? Play clubs somewhere (besides the east coast)? We've got this great Blues and Jazz Society in Casper, Wyoming, that brings in high calibre acts - how about paying us a visit, Phoebe!?