Watermark

Watermark, Art Garfunkel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025BO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,577 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please Remaster, October 26, 2005

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Charles Horton (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Watermark (Audio CD)

SONY - Please Remaster and re-release this brilliant record. By far the best of Art's mostly mediocre solo output. The production and the songwriting - ah, yes - the sublime songwriting by Jimmy Webb - at the top of his game - is fantastic. Art perfectly capture's Jimmy's angst- ridden lyrics and his voice is never better. This a stone classic that has never aged. I'd love to hear it using the best of today's mastering technolgy. Sony - I can guarentee you one sale right here.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Personal synchronisity with this cd, September 25, 2000

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Steven Clem Haley "Steve is in Stillwater" (Stillwater, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Watermark (Audio CD)

I got a demo of this LP when I was working at a record store in college. Loved it from the first time I heard it. For some reason I was drawn to the enigmatic choral arrangement on a couple of songs-notably Wooden Planes. Liner notes give credit to the Oklahoma Baptist University Choir under the direction of Dr. James Woodward. This was 1977 and I lived in another state.

Jump ahead 25 years

My fiance is thumbing through my old lps and finds this one. She pulls it aside and immediately embraces the cover. Her dad was Dr. James Woodward. Although I never got to meet the man (Sadly his life was taken in a 1991 plane crash) I sure loved that arrangement, and I sure love his daughter- and now granddaughter.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sophisticated, thoughtful pop, August 19, 2000

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Mark Mussari (Old Pueblo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Watermark (Audio CD)

Watermark is one of the most intelligent, lovely albums made in the 1970s, a reminder that not all was disco or sappy ballads. Garfunkel joins Linda Ronstadt as one of the great interpreters of Webb's pensive and often demanding songs. Webb was involved in this production and it shows: the arrangements are classy and never intrusive. The CD's best cuts include the first song, "Crying In My Sleep," with wonderful wordplay (watch Webb toy with the various meanings of "ran" in one of the verses), the Celtic "All My Love's Laughter" (with a little musical help from the Chieftains), and "Mr. Shuck and Jive" with its jazzy arrangement and embittered lyric. The title track features haunting imagery (Webb is an imagist like Dylan and Joni Mitchell--he tends to think in pictures), and there's a surreal quality to the arrangement on "Wooden Planes," a great song best done by B.J. Thomas.