I admit I've got a pretty bad track record of predicting which artists are going to make it. In retrospect, I understand why some of the artists I thought would hit big didn't do so. The one, however, that still puzzles me is Mandy Barnett. Given her voice, the enduring popularity of Patsy Cline (whom Barnett sounds a lot like), her magnificent 1999 sophomore album
I've Got a Right to Cry, and Sire's, her record label at the time, commitment to her. She's only released a few albums since then, though I think she still plays Patsy Cline sometimes in Alway, the play about Patsy Cline's life. She does, however, as I just discovered, have a track on the new Eddy Arnold tribute album -
You Don't Know Me that just came out on Tuesday (so I haven't heard it yet.) Back in the late 1990s, she also appeared on two soundtracks - Election and Traveller. The soundtracks are a little hit or miss, but Mandy's contributions are definite highlights. Since they're out of print, I thought I would post them tonight.
Election soundtrack
| Get Set |
Taxiride |
| Jennifer Juniper |
Donovan |
| Rising Sign |
Hurricane #1 |
| If You'll Be The Teacher |
Mandy Barnett |
| Three Times A Lady |
The Commodores |
| This Road I'm Travelling |
Mojave 3 |
| Born To Be With You |
Damnations TX |
| Drown In Small Cowgirl Boots |
Jolene |
| Find A Way To Win |
Tim Carroll |
| Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now |
Patience & Prudence |
| Right In The Back Of Your Mind |
Spacehog |
| La Piscine Couverte |
April March |
| Only God Knows |
Martin's Dam |
| Weird |
Sebadoh |
| El Tostado |
Joey Altruda and the Cocktail Crew |
| Election [selections from the original
score] |
Rolfe Kent |
Traveller Soundtrack
| Young Love |
Kevin Sharp |
| Dark Moon |
Mandy Barnett |
| Don't Rob Another Man's Castle |
Royal Wade Kimes |
| Sweeter Than The Flowers |
The Cox Family |
| Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu |
Lou Ann Barton |
| Love And Happiness |
Al Green |
| I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes |
The Cox Family |
| Gonna Find Me A Bluebird |
Royal Wade Kimes |
| Searching (For Someone Like You) |
Mandy Barnett |
| I Love You A Thousand Ways |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| Sweet Nothin's |
Tina & The B-Side Movement |
| Blues Stay Away From Me |
Thrasher & Shiver |
| Please Help Me I'm Falling (In Love With
You) |
Lila McCann |
| Rockin' Robin |
Bryan White |
| Seven Lonely Days |
K.D. Lang And The Reclines With Take 6 |
| If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| Dream Lover |
Mandy Barnett |
| King Of The Road |
Randy Travis |
3 comments:
I haven't heard Mandy Barnett yet, but I think the public just interested in that kind of sound. I was enthusiastic about two similar artists - kd lang and Madeleine Peyroux. Each got some initial press and then faded away.
Audiences don't require their favorites to be able to sing, or we wouldn't have so many obvious auto-tuned performers. It seems that if you have a decent voice then you're required to do all sorts of arpeggios and gimmicky vocal tricks like Whitney Houston and Celine Dion.
We all have our unheralded favorites and if you wait long enough, one of them will get some deserved attentipon. All you can hope for is that they don't sell out everything you like about them in order to get some visibility.
love all your posts and insights... so many need reposting though... hope you can re-share the many dead links.
Anonymous,
Just re-upped both of these. Any particular other comps you wanted uploaded?
best,
Ish
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