Speaking With the Angel: Mary Black: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Turning Away

2. Cut By Wire

3. Don't Say Okay

4. Bless The Road

5. Broken Wings

6. Fall At Your Feet

7. Message Of Love

8. Moments

9. Speaking With The Angel

10. Big Trip To Portland

11. I Live Not Where I Love

12. Fields Of Gold

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Ever since she left De Dannan to begin her solo career in 1987, Mary Black has experimented with finding the proper balance of folk and pop to best suit her magnificent voice. Speaking with the Angel, which includes songs by Dougie MacLean, John Gorka, Sting, Ron Sexsmith, and the folkie's favorite songwriter Anonymous, gets the ratio just about right. The CD includes uptempo pop ditties such as "Message of Love" and "Big Trip to Portland"; smoky, jazz-inflected songs like "Fall at Your Feet"; and of course a good sampling of folk songs like "Turning Away" and "I Live Not Where I Love." On her late-'90s albums Black abandoned her familiar folk-inspired arrangements in favor of a slick, pop sound, but here she has enlisted the help of famed Celtic music producer Donal Lunny, who worked on five songs, to help keep her music from straying too far from its roots. Speaking with the Angel is a CD full of strong performances, but perhaps the most moving is "Moments," a tribute to Sandy Denny, a singer Black still turns to for inspiration more than two decades after her untimely death. --Michael Simmons

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4.0 out of 5 stars More like Mary's work on No Frontiers, et. al., Jun 6 2002

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This review is from: Speaking With the Angel (Audio CD)

Although Declan Sinnott isn't on this CD, Mary's songs on this one are more like her previous work on "by the time it gets dark" and "No Frontiers". The beauty and strength of her voice comes through without getting overpowered by the instruments backing her up. Not worth 5 stars, but certainly a worthy effort for the die-hard Mary Black fan (me included).

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2.0 out of 5 stars MARY, MARY, MARY, Mar 11 2001

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re cord "music freak" (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This one is better than Shine, but only slightly. There are some good songs... "speaking with the angels", "I live not where I love", "Bless the road". Some are terrible... "Message of love", "Fields of gold". All in all a mediocre cd. If you loved Babes in the woods, Circus, No frontiers, Holy ground, By the time it gets dark, even... Without the fanfare, as I have and still listen to always, you'll be very disappointed. I'm slowly losing my interest in Mary because of the last two cds, but I'll keep buying because I know she'll be back!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mary Black: at last! back to her old self!, Mar 5 2001

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Ginette SHEEHY (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

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I usually buy Mary Black's CDs as soon as I can get them. It was not quite the same for this CD. When I purchased her CD Shine, I was so deceived and when I read the reviews about it, I thought that I had finished buying Black CDs. So I waited very long to even consider listening to this new album. When I heard some of the songs I decided to try again. I have had the CD for no more than a week and I already know the lyrics by heart. It is a wonderful CD. Different but as beautiful as the former ones except Shine.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Forgetable
Her worst album. Much of the material has been done better by others (Eva Cassidy singing Fields of Gold; Dougie Maclean doing Turning Away and Broken Wings; Cry, Cry, Cry doing... Read more

Published on Feb 2 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Mary Black Continues Her Magic
Mary Black continues to prove that a truly gifted singer can put her special mark on a wide variety of music. Read more

Published on Nov 10 2000 by hongkongmom