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The Magical Mirror

Jeanie BartonMP3 Download
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Play   1. I Won't Ask 3:59 £0.89
Play   2. Can I Think of Love? 3:47 £0.89
Play   3. Cruel Competition 3:48 £0.89
Play   4. The Magical Mirror 3:23 £0.89
Play   5. Without You Tonight 3:49 £0.89
Play   6. Don't Assume that I'm Blue 2:41 £0.89
Play   7. I Try Too Hard 4:21 £0.89
Play   8. Scared of the Keys 3:31 £0.89
Play   9. Kinder 3:58 £0.89
Play 10. Looonatic 5:36 £0.89
Play 11. Missing You/My One and Only Love 3:13 £0.89
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Jeanie Barton's newest CD, The Magical Mirror, is both serious and charming, like the artist herself. Her unfailingly accurate pitch allows her to engage emotionally rich subjects - love, loss, and the oddly moving details of everyday life - without skimping on the musical shadows and lights through which she tells some truths about the inner life. `The Magical Mirror' and `Scared of the Keys' are both contemporary in diction and theme, and are central songs of the collection, and I expect they will be covered by other singers.

But Barton's compositions also play the complex structure of her long lines of lyric against the laughter in her singing voice. In the songs of loss, Barton presents an elegiac persona while maintaining the taut austerity of her vocal tone. In her latin numbers, her songs modulate into the sexy-comic terrain that I don't hear too often, but was worked elegantly by singers like Lee Wiley, Ginger Rogers, and Jean Harlow singing `Reckless.' `I Try Too Hard' is dry and witty, making vocalese and narrative clauses merge and separate. In`Don't Assume That I'm Blue' Barton is charming and hilariously scathing at the same time.

This is a CD in which every song is important and as a whole, it offers us portrait of a singer/composer/lyricist who is prepared to be serious and insouciant. Much to admire here; and much to find moving and amusing. And Barton's voice is...well...its radiant.
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Jeanie Barton is a womanly woman with the eyes of a lost little girl gazing wistfully out of
her charismatic album cover.
This wistful quality is a recurring feature of Jeanie's original songs on her CD, 'The Magical
Mirror'. Her sweet voice is reminiscent of Vera Lynn and Doris Day, as are the songs
themselves.
The title track and the album are dedicated to Jeanie's flawed but adored father, recently
deceased. For me, the killer track is the heartbreakingly lovely and clearly heartfelt Missing
You. The pain of her loss is unflinchingly shared with us, and the song makes me cry every
time.
But this is also a cheerful and upbeat album. Don't Assume That I'm Blue is a chirpy song
with a wittily dotty percussion section in the middle, conjuring a demented spoons-player.
Without You Tonight, Jeanie''s Christmas song, has a lazy Latin groove to smooch to, and I
Try Too Hard and Loonatic are cheerful upbeat salsa tracks.
Jeanie's band features strong support from pianist John China and guitarist Chris Berry,
with great solos from Ed Benstead on trumpet and flugelhorn and Ewan Bleach on clarinet.
There is a lot to like here. These songs will grow on you.
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