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PAUL MCCARTNEY - KISSES ON THE BOTTOM (180G 2LP)Price: $34.99Category: Music, Vinyl, 180g Vinyl. SKU: LDM5981 Availability: * All specified ship dates are estimates |
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Paul McCartney Kisses On The Bottom on 180g 2LP
Featuring Production from Grammy-Winning Producer Tommy LiPuma and Backing by Diana Krall and Her Band Personal and Reflective: McCartney Goes Back to Childhood on Riveting Covers Album of Songs That Inspired Him
Record Represents First Time (EVER) That McCartney Performed in Vocal Booth Without an Instrument at His Disposal Special Guest Appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder
While many a musician has often been asked about tunes that have influenced their songwriting, Paul McCartney has never properly answered the question. Until now. The ex-Beatle offer a glimpse into “the songs which inspired the songs” with Kisses On the Bottom, an album of standards he grew up listening to in his childhood plus two brand new McCartney compositions. With the help of Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band, as well as guest appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, McCartney’s new album is a deeply personal journey through classic American compositions that, in some cases, the performer first heard his father perform on piano at home. As authentic and daring a musical statement as he could make, this is the album McCartney has been thinking about making for more than 20 years and probably the last thing his fans are expecting. “In the end it was ‘Look, if I don’t do it now, I’ll never do it,” he says. In short, he believes it is about time “the songs me and John based quite a few of our things on” received the recognition they deserve. Moreover, the record also features two new original McCartney compositions in the spirit of those classics. “When I kind of got into songwriting, I realized how well structured these songs were and I think I took a lot of my lessons from them,” he explains. “I always thought artists like Fred Astaire were very cool. Writers like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, all of those guys, I just thought the songs were magical. And then, as I got to be a songwriter I thought it’s beautiful, the way they made those songs.” Determined to approach the record in a new and unique manner, McCartney enlisted the help of LiPuma and Krall and her band, which deliver ultra-high quality musicianship and are completely in tune with the headliner's restraint and feel for the music. In the studio, the recording of this album presented a new challenge for McCartney who, for the first time ever, performed exclusively in the vocal booth without any instrument (no guitar, no bass, no piano), leading to vocal performances like none other in his career. He adds: “It was very spontaneous, kind of organic, which then reminded me of the way we’d work with The Beatles. We’d bring a song in, kick it around, when we found a way to do it we’d say ‘Okay, let's do a take now’ and by the time everyone kind of had an idea of what they were doing, we’d learnt the song. So that’s what we did, we did the take live in the studio.” The album was recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, New York and London throughout 2011. It also features guest musicians Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, respectively, on the original compositions "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts." Paul McCartney Kisses On The Bottom Track Listing: 1. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Alhert/Young) 2. Home (When Shadows Fall) (Van Steeden/Clarkson/Clarkson) 3. It's Only a Paper Moon (Arlen/Harburg/Rose) 4. More I Cannot Wish You (Loesser) 5. The Glory of Love (Hill) 6. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) (Dorsey/Robertson/Mysels) 7. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (Arlen/Mercer) 8. My Valentine (McCartney) 9. Always (Berlin) 10. My Very Good Friend the Milkman (Burke/Spina) 11. Bye Bye Blackbird (Henderson/Dixon) 12. Get Yourself Another Fool (Forrest/Heywood) 13. The Inch Worm (Loesser) 14. Only Our Hearts (McCartney) |
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