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Mainstream songbird, Feb 8 2003

If you are already an ardent fan, this review is not for you. I am writing for those like myself who didn't really know Jann Arden before buying this album.

I bought the CD for her version of "You Don't Know Me," and secondarily for "Insensitive." They were the only songs of hers I had ever heard. Turns out these two songs and a Leonard Cohen cover ("If It Be Your Will") are the only tracks on the CD not written or co-written by Arden herself. Some of her songs, such as "Unloved," a duet with Jackson Browne, are strong, but her songs as a whole don't measure up to "Insensitive" and especially "You Don't Know Me," a killer… Read more

Celestial sound, Mar 20 2002

You must hear this CD to believe it. The glass armonica and other glass instruments produce, in the hands of Dennis James, an otherworldly resonance that seems almost mesmerizing. Of particular note are Garry Eister's "Quintet for Glass & Strings" and his exquisite arrangement of Faure's "Pavane." Though classical clear through, this CD should appeal to fans of Ronstandt as well as Faure.