04/24/2020
Looking forward to the rescheduled date with Kim Richey at The Locks Music!
Here is something to help tide us all over till then.
KIM RICHEY – A LONG WAY BACK: THE SONGS OF GLIMMER: REVIEW
KIM RICHEY
A Long Way Back (Yep Roc)
Taking back an album, in a legal sense (from the former rights owner, usually the label) is often a long, laborious process, and sometimes quite expensive. But you end up with the recordings.
Taking back an album, in a musical sense (from its history, as much as its rights holder who owns the original recordings but not necessarily the songs) by remaking it so you now have recordings that are yours, can be cheaper but carries with it significant risks and big questions.
Can you add anything? What will you lose? Will people who bought it first time around want to revisit and deal with differences? Will people who never had the original, be interested enough?
I’m not sure if there are commercial, practical, or just personal reasons for Kim Richey to revisit the songs from Glimmer, her 1999 third album (though it’s possibly telling that you can’t get that album on streaming services anymore). But what I can tell you is that (a) Glimmer still holds up as a quality collection, maybe a little too glossy in production but hardly lumbered with an out of date sound, and (b) A Long Way Back can hold its own as a new entity.
And it is new, with Richey taking a more than passing go at remaking the record, beginning with re-arranging the running order, and with it the messaging a listener picks up. ...
.. this is an excerpt. Read the full review at www.bernardzuel.net
