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No Broken Dreams
By Charles Martin
In No Broken Dreams, Dorothy Cowfield sings classics from the country and cool songbooks of music from the United States. Carried by an exceptional band of musicians, Dorothy gives a languid twist to songs ranging from Spanish Harlem to San Francisco Blues to Tennessee Waltz to Blue Moon to Willie Nelson’s Crazy. Above the beautiful but sparse musical arrangements, often featuring an array of fine guitar playing from Artie Traum, Jerome Harris, Fooch Fischetti (pedal steel) and Shu Nakamura, Dorothy floats tidal investigations of emotions that come and go with mistakes, both of one’s own and of others, especially about love, attachment, separation and loss. She strokes the waves of relationships but also the lulls that follow and can plunge to depths of sadness. Her selections speak of the acceptance of letdowns and limits, but also of the pleasure of recalling pleasure, of having lived through the best of times and reaching, ready, to create them again.
No Broken Dreams? This music is love songs—flights of love, aerial gliding, swift descent and crash landings. Dorothy sings to us of the breaks of reality but also of the dreams that go on: we make the most of the fragments, finding hope even in pieces.
No Broken Dreams is the forlorn tones and sweet resilience that soothe loss and heartbreak and make the mess of loves into the wonder of relationships. Dorothy and the band take us there, in jazzy flows, underling the beauty in these classics of keeping on. Dorothy has chosen songs of the heart, and she has the heart to rise to them.
Thank you.
No Broken Dreams
By Charles Martin
In No Broken Dreams, Dorothy Cowfield sings classics from the country and cool songbooks of music from the United States. Carried by an exceptional band of musicians, Dorothy gives a languid twist to songs ranging from Spanish Harlem to San Francisco Blues to Tennessee Waltz to Blue Moon to Willie Nelson’s Crazy. Above the beautiful but sparse musical arrangements, often featuring an array of fine guitar playing from Artie Traum, Jerome Harris, Fooch Fischetti (pedal steel) and Shu Nakamura, Dorothy floats tidal investigations of emotions that come and go with mistakes, both of one’s own and of others, especially about love, attachment, separation and loss. She strokes the waves of relationships but also the lulls that follow and can plunge to depths of sadness. Her selections speak of the acceptance of letdowns and limits, but also of the pleasure of recalling pleasure, of having lived through the best of times and reaching, ready, to create them again.
No Broken Dreams? This music is love songs—flights of love, aerial gliding, swift descent and crash landings. Dorothy sings to us of the breaks of reality but also of the dreams that go on: we make the most of the fragments, finding hope even in pieces.
No Broken Dreams is the forlorn tones and sweet resilience that soothe loss and heartbreak and make the mess of loves into the wonder of relationships. Dorothy and the band take us there, in jazzy flows, underling the beauty in these classics of keeping on. Dorothy has chosen songs of the heart, and she has the heart to rise to them.