Tom Varner: The Window Up Above, by Tom Varner

Tom Varner: The Window Up Above

by Tom Varner

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1.	Stone Grinds All 01:29	buy track
2.	The Window Up Above 03:00	buy track
3.	I Got it Bad 04:21	buy track
4.	Kingdom Coming 04:16	buy track
5.	Over The Rainbow 04:05	buy track
6.	My God Is Real (Yes God Is Real) 03:45	buy track
7.	The Man I Love 04:28	buy track
8.	When The Saints Go Marching In 05:03	buy track
9.	Lorena 01:59	buy track
10.	Till I Get Right 04:56	buy track
11.	Memories of You 04:53	buy track
12.	Battle Cry of Freedom 03:07	buy track
13.	All Quiet on The Potomac 01:57	buy track
14.	Ramblin' Man 04:37	buy track
15.	Abide With Me 01:26	buy track
16.	When Jesus Wept 04:33	buy track
17.	With Every Wish 03:48	buy track
18.	The Best Thing 03:44	buy track
19.	There Is a Balm in Gilead 01:53	buy track

about

American Songs 1770 - 1998

“I wanted to do something different for this record. Instead of playing my own compositions, I wanted to simply explore a variety of songs that have an inner resonance, whether from family, religion, nation, or culture.” —Tom Varner

What Tom Varner has attempted on The Window Up Above is nothing less than a survey of the whole American song book, a millenium review of the last three centuries-and he succeeds brilliantly. Every song he has chosen has that American "thing," and his approach to every song is patently jazz, even where he chooses to play the melody "straight" to let its qualities shine through.

Highlights abound: The witty, off-center de- and reconstruction of the Revolutionary and Civil War smash hits "Stone Grinds All," "When Jesus Wept," "Kingdom Come, " and "Battle Cry of Freedom" will forever change the way you hear them; his understated, heartfelt renditions of "Lorena," "All Quiet on the Potomac," and "There is a Balm in Gilead" would make a stone weep; to say nothing of his splendid re-imaginings of standards like "Over the Rainbow" and "When the Saints Go Marching In."

Even Bruce Springsteen gets the treatment, his "With Every Wish" joining George Jones’s "The Window Up Above," Hank Williams's "Ramblin' Man,"(check out Mark Feldman's and Varner's hair-raising solos and closing duet) and Tammy Wynette's "Till I Get it Right" from the country canon.

In Varner’s unique arrangements, every song on this collection emerges freshly minted. Once heard, not soon forgotten.

credits

released January 1, 1998

Tom Varner, French horn; Pete McCann, guitar; George Schuller, drums; Lindsey Horner, bass; Mark Feldman, violin; Dave Ballou, trumpet; Steve Alcott, bass; Thirsty Dave Hansen, vocals

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New World Records Brooklyn, New York

Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., which records under the label New World Records, was founded in 1975.

We are dedicated to the documentation of American music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies.