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The great Kate and Anna McGarrigle offer up their 2003 French album La Vache Qui Pleure. A highly anticipated event for those who love the elegant folk music of these talented, vocally gifted and internationally renowned artists. The McGarrigle sisters have worked with Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Lou Reed and many others. Kate McGarrigle is the former wife of Loudon Wainwright, and the mother of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright. 11 tracks packaged in a gatefold paper sleeve. 2003.
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By D. Rachlin
Format:Audio CD
How exciting it was to discover a new record by Kate and Anna. I play this cd over and over again in my car, and especially the first song. The instruments begin one at a time, eventually creating a multilayered richness. Having studied Germanic languages, my French is limited. Okay, so I bought a new French dictionary and figured out the first song. This leads me to wonder why the inner sleeve doesn't have English translations. We can't all be bilingual, now, can we, n'est-pas?? (Sunflowers does have an Anglo version at the end, though).
Also, I really don't like the interruption to all the great music with that horrible poem recited by what's-his-name. I just skip it and return to the blissful voices of our favorite sisters. Nevertheless, this is still a five star cd.
Also, I really don't like the interruption to all the great music with that horrible poem recited by what's-his-name. I just skip it and return to the blissful voices of our favorite sisters. Nevertheless, this is still a five star cd.
Format:Audio CD
This rare last decade album from the McGarrigles lends a subtly different quality than their early, more famous work. Less energetic, but informed by their greater life experience. "Rose Blanche," a more intense version than their earlier recording, is worth the price of the album. So glad that Anna is keeping the candle burning through her commitment to empty the vault of their previously unreleased work.
By B. Stockwell
Format:Audio CD
Like Tom and Gabriel, I have been a fan for a long time, since seeing them appear on "Saturday Night Live" c.1975 and wondering who they were and if they had recordings out, etc. A few years ago they appeared in San Francisco and my then-girlfriend-now-wife and I still weep and sigh over that wonderful evening; Kate McGarrigle had washed her hair prior to the concert; these are the things you learn from a live performance. "La Vache Qui Pleure" is, spectacularly and wonderfully, "more of the same" which means you need to buy a copy for youself and a few dozen to pass out as gifts. But $30.00 for a single CD is musical blackmail, especially since, as Mr. Good suggests, it would cost less if ordered from Amazon.ca (Canada, not California). It is: there, it sells for $16.99 Canadian dollars. In American terms, that's about $12.25. Amazon.ca will also toss in the McGarrigles first "French" album - "Entre la Jeunesse et la Tendresse" - and the two CDs will only cost the US equivalent of $25.20. Even after postage is added, this is the route I'm going.
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I have dreamed in French.
"Doctor," I said, "I don't understand my dreams." "Why do you believe that is?" he said. Read more
Published on Mar 10 2004 by David Geiszler
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More wayward career moves from Kate and Anna
Gabriel Nilsson's review says it beautifully: another wonderful recording by those elusive sisters from the frozen north, but they seem to be deliberately making it hard for us. Read more
Published on Mar 5 2004 by Ben Koerner
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Timeless beauty
The long anticipated lifesign from the McGarrigle sisters is a winner from start to end. This is pure quality! Read more
Published on Jan 21 2004 by Gabriel Nilsson
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