Raven [Australia]
2004
Love Lifts Us Up 1968-1983
About This Album
Raven Records, Australia's premier reissue label, does it again with the first true retrospective of pop chanteuse Jennifer Warnes. While it only covers her formative and blockbuster years (it cuts off well before Famous Blue Raincoat), it nonetheless sheds light on one of the truly brilliant song stylists who, in the crystalline grain of her voice, embodied -- whether she was on the charts or not -- the true restless spirit of radio pop from the era. Indeed, she is a perfect pop vocalist. The album is divided up into three sections. There are tracks from her first three albums, issued between 1968 and 1972, beginning with her cover of Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning" and Lennon and McCartney's "Here, There and Everywhere." Her single of "Easy to Be Hard," recorded while she was in the Los Angeles production of Hair (she played Sheila), came from her second album, See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me, and was issued three months before the Three Dog Night version. This is the only cut from the sophomore effort, but her only Warner album in 1972 (called simply, Jennifer) is well represented here by covers of Jackson Browne's "These Days," Jimmy Webb's "P.
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