Another Time, Another Place

Another Time, Another Place

by Jennifer Warnes
Another Time, Another Place

Another Time, Another Place

by Jennifer Warnes

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record)

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Overview

Singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes celebrates her 50th anniversary as a recording artist with Another Time, Another Place, her first recording since 2001's The Well. Since the 1990s, Warnes has worked only when she's wanted to -- a decade passed between The Well and its predecessor, The Hunter. In this century, she has lent her voice to recordings by Sonny Landreth, Chris Hillman, Leonard Cohen, and his son Adam Cohen. Warnes and longtime collaborator Roscoe Beck (Cohen's bassist and music director and her own producer on Famous Blue Raincoat and The Hunter), began working in Austin and Los Angeles in 2015. But a string of profound losses -- a niece, two sisters, a longtime manager, ex-boyfriend, her dog and Cohen -- sidetracked the sessions several times. Aside from or perhaps because of all that tragedy, Another Time, Another Place offers a stellar reflection of Warnes the interpretive singer. She co-wrote only one tune here, the lilting, Americana road song "The Boys and Me" with Michael Smotherman. The rest are covers that range from country to jazz to pop, all delivered with her sensual, expressive contralto. She opens with a completely revisioned version of Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe." Amid a weave of strings, upright bass, acoustic and electric guitars, and poignantly played B-3 and French horn, she offers the song's melody with bittersweet knowledge and its projective lyric as if singing into a mirror for reassurance. A breezy and bluesy read of the jazz standard "Tomorrow Night" -- cut by everyone from Lonnie Johnson to Bob Dylan to the Texas Hill Country's own Johnny Nicholas -- features Beck's strolling upright bassline atop drums (Vinnie Colaiuta), percussion (Lenny Castro), and Jim Cox's subtly swelling Hammond as she leans hard into the tune's elegant swing. Mickey Newbury's "So Sad" is delivered with warm, rounded edges as Greg Leisz's pedal steel winds around the grain in her smoky vocal to underscore each moment of loneliness and pain in the wake of a lover's departure, and those of friends who've shuffled off this mortal coil. Warnes convincingly weds jazz, cabaret, and musette in her version of "I See Your Face Before Me." Landreth appears on resonator and electric slide guitar on a swampy yet altogether cinematic take on Ray Bonneville's "I Am the Big Easy," complete with a laid-back second-line rhythm. Two tracks later she offers "Back Where I Started," another country-esque soul number by the Tedeschi-Trucks Band. The tension between emotional conviction and sweetness in its lyric is a perfect match for Warnes' unflinching honesty and vulnerability. While Marcus Hummon's "Freedom" wasn't written for Warnes, it could have been. Backed by an all-star choir that numbers Ruthie Foster and Blondie Chaplin in its quintet, it relays the notion of freedom as both a state of abundance and an illustration of loss. As a result of these intimate performances, Another Time, Another Place is return to the world after a prolonged period of solitude and grief. Warnes offers these songs with the same aplomb, grace, discipline, passion, and dignity that she has displayed her entire career, and imbues these songs with new shades of meaning in the process. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date: 06/21/2019
Label: Impex
UPC: 0856276002220
Rank: 40501

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jennifer Warnes   Primary Artist,Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Sonny Landreth   Guitar (Electric),Guitar (Resonator)
Blondie Chaplin   Choir/Chorus
Ames Asbell   Viola
Greg Leisz   Guitar (Resonator)
Ruthie Foster   Choir/Chorus
John Ferraro   Drums
Dean Parks   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Resonator)
Lenny Castro   Percussion
Roscoe Beck   Bass,Keyboards,Synthesizer Bass,Guitar (Resonator),Vocals (Background)
Leigh Mahoney   Violin
Abraham Laboriel, Sr.   Bass
Jeff Plankenhorn   Weissenborn
Stefano Intelisano   Keyboards
Vinnie Colaiuta   Drums
Stephen Barber   Keyboards
Eric Darken   Vibraphone
Joel Guzman   Accordion
Jim Cox   Piano,Fender Rhodes,Organ (Hammond)
Daran De Shazo   Guitar (Electric)
Red Young   Keyboards
Mike Cross   Vocals,Choir/Chorus
Mitch Watkins   Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Sara Nelson   Cello
Tracy Seeger   Violin
Javier Chaparro   Violin
Roderick Sanford   Choir/Chorus
Tom Hale   French Horn
John Mills   Flute (Alto)
Gabriel Santiago   Guitar (Nylon String)
James Robinson   Choir/Chorus

Technical Credits

Tony Diagle   Engineer
Bernie Grundman   Mastering
Elliot Scheiner   Engineer
Eddie Vedder   Composer
Warren Haynes   Composer
Derek Trucks   Composer
Jennifer Warnes   Composer,Producer
Howard Dietz   Composer
Roscoe Beck   Arranger
Sam Coslow   Composer
Ray Bonneville   Composer
Micheal Smotherman   Composer
Mickey Newbury   Composer
Arthur Schwartz   Composer
C. Roscoe Beck   Engineer,Producer
Stephen Barber   Arranger
Steve Genewick   Engineer
John Legend   Composer
Mark Knopfler   Composer
Jim Cox   Arranger
Marcus Hummon   Composer
Will Grosz   Composer
Noah Snyder   Mixing,Engineer
Bruce Dent   Assistant Post Production
Kate Stephenson   Design
John Mills   Arranger
Thomas "Beno" May   Technical Assistance
Lee Jackson   Technical Assistance
India Hamblin   Creative Director
Faye Purcell   Creative Director
Nick Reves   Engineer
Herclayheart   Photography
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