"What veteran singer songwriter released the 2011 album ""50 Words For Snow""?"
"50 Words for Snow 50 Words for Snow is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It is the second album to be released on her own label, Fish People. It is her first all-new studio album since ""Aerial"" from 2005, and marks the first time since 1978 that she has released two new albums in one year. The album spawned one single, ""Wild Man"", which was released as a download to promote the album. ""50 Words for Snow"" was released on 21 November 2011, Kate Bush's second album of the year after ""Director's Cut."" The album consists"
"Words for Snow"", was released on 21 November 2011. It features high-profile cameo appearance of Elton John on the duet ""Snowed in at Wheeler Street"".The album contains seven new songs ""set against a backdrop of falling snow"", with a total running time of 65 minutes. A radio edit of the first single, ""Wild Man"", was played on BBC Radio 2's ""The Ken Bruce Show"" on 10 October. and was released as a digital download on 11 October. The album is distributed in the United States by Anti-Records. On 14 November 2011, NPR played ""50 Words for Snow"" in its entirety"
"for the first time. Australia's ABC Radio National declared ""50 Words for Snow"" album of the week of 12 November 2011. The album's songs are built around Bush's quietly jazzy piano and Steve Gadd's drums, and utilise both sung and spoken word vocals in what ""Classic Rock"" critic Stephen Dalton calls ""a ... supple and experimental affair, with a contemporary chamber pop sound grounded in crisp piano, minimal percussion and light-touch electronics ... billowing jazz-rock soundscapes, interwoven with fragmentary narratives delivered in a range of voices from shrill to Laurie Anderson-style cooing."" Bassist Danny Thompson appears on the album, which"
"wintry piano, atmospheric orchestral arrangements and an intimate, torch-lit vocal from Bush, who, at 53, has acquired a warm huskiness to her voice … the album wobbles with the hammy Elton John duet ""Snowed In at Wheeler St"", and topples over on the title track in which Bush invites Stephen Fry to dream up 50 terms for snow … 50 Words for Snow elucidates its wintry theme with flashes of brilliance but the odd treacherous icy patch too""; Vivascene's Marin Nelson has trouble with the songs' long running times and Bush's ""forced whimsicality""; she declares that ""Bush was going for"
"on 35 reviews, which indicates ""universal acclaim"". On 27 November, ""50 Words for Snow"" entered the UK album charts at #5, making Bush the first female recording artist to have an album of all new material in the top five during each of the last five decades. On 14 November 2011, NPR played the album in its entirety for the first time. In her accompanying review of the album, NPR music critic Ann Powers writes: ""Each song on ""Snow"" grows as if from magic beans from the lush ground of the singer-songwriter's keyboard parts. The music is immersive but spacious,"
"is as deep and decedent as the place itself, it's that kind of picturesque music,"" and goes on to call the album ""unique, concise, cohesive classic."" The Quietus' Joe Kennedy compares ""50 Words for Snow"" to the work of such artists as Michael Nyman, Brian Eno and Scott Walker, writing ""Snow brings about a state of exception in which there's no pressure to exert ourselves on the outside world: instead, it invites contemplativeness and the prioritisation of personal and domestic relationships over professional ones. Bush's habitual provocations to abandon day-to-day concerns while cultivating romantic, internal landscapes have always felt slightly"
"Hank Snow Clarence Eugene ""Hank"" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, he recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on the ""Billboard"" country charts from 1950 until 1980. His number-one hits include the self-penned songs ""I'm Moving On"", ""The Golden Rocket"" and The Rhumba Boogie and famous versions of ""I Don't Hurt Anymore"", ""Let Me Go, Lover!"", ""I've Been Everywhere"", ""Hello Love"", as well as other top 10 hits. Snow was an accomplished songwriter whose clear, baritone voice expressed a wide"
"like the work of someone gazing from a window into a blizzard. This, one senses, is her natural territory...Where her past work has often been heavily-layered and breathless, 50 Words for Snow uses negative space to impressive effect; much of the album features little more than voice and flurrying passages of piano which gust across the stave, changing pace and melodic direction as if they're suddenly hitting updrafts."" Other critics take exception to some of Bush's choices, greeting the album with skepticism. Ludovic Hunter-Tilsley in ""The Financial Times"" warns that despite ""slow eddies of piano chords and gentle percussion …"
"by Bush and photographed by award-winning British cinematographer Roger Pratt, the shadow puppets were designed by Robert Allsopp. The album's closing track, ""Among Angels"", was included in the setlist of Bush's 2014 Before the Dawn concerts. In 2015, a remixed version of ""Wild Man"" was included on ""The Art of Peace − Songs for Tibet II"" compilation album celebrating the 80th birthday of the Dalai Lama. ""50 Words For Snow"" received general acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based"
"in 2011, Fairweather Low made a guest appearance on Kate Bush's album ""50 Words For Snow"", singing on the chorus of the album's only single, ""Wild Man"". In 2013, he opened Eric Clapton's shows with his band the Lowriders on Clapton's European tour and, later that year, Fairweather Low & the Lowriders released the album, ""Zone-O-Tone"". In April 2013, he appeared at the Eric Clapton Guitar Festival Crossroads in New York and featured on two tracks of the DVD of the concert. On 13–14 November, he was also part of Eric Clapton's band on the occasion of Clapton's two concerts"
"to explore using high male voices in contrast to her own, deeper, voice. ""Misty"" is about a snowman lover who melts away after a night of passion, while ""Wild Man"" tells the story of a group of climbers in the Himalayas who, upon finding evidence of a nearby Yeti, erase all traces of it to protect it from discovery. Elton John and Bush as eternally divided lovers trade vocals on ""Snowed in at Wheeler Street"", while Stephen Fry recites the ""50 Words for Snow"". The quiet ""Among Angels"" finishes the album. ""50 Words for Snow"" received general acclaim from music"
"Tom Snow Thomas Righter Snow (born 1947 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American songwriter. Snow has written songs for Gayle McCormick ""(Even a Fool Would Let Go"" with Kerry Chater - a song covered by a number of artists including Kenny Rogers and Joe Cocker). ""Love Not War"" (with Barbara Griffin), Olivia Newton-John (""Deeper Than the Night"", ""Make a Move on Me""), and Melissa Manchester (""You Should Hear How She Talks About You""), The Pointer Sisters' million-selling 1980 hit ""He's So Shy"" (with lyrics by Cynthia Weil), Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge (""You"", which was also an Australian top 10"
"Phoebe Snow Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her 1975 song ""Poetry Man"". She was described by ""The New York Times"" as a ""contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves."" Snow was born in New York City in 1950, and raised in a musical household in which Delta blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and folk music recordings were played around the clock. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an encyclopedic knowledge"
"mentioned in the lyrics of the song ""Wow"", which is a song about a gay actor. Touching on the same subject, ""Kashka from Baghdad"" is about a male couple who are forced to keep their relationship secret. ""Lionheart"" was the first Kate Bush album to feature Del Palmer, who played bass and had previously been in the KT Bush Band. Palmer went on to play bass, or to engineer and record on every subsequent Kate Bush album up to and including ""50 Words for Snow"" (2011). He and Bush also had a long-term relationship between the late 1970s and early"
"album, “The Last Song,” as of September 26, 2011 was in the top ten on the Singer/Songwriters Songs chart on iTunes. For the music video of ""The Last Song"" fans donated a budget of $8,000. In November 2012 he released the EP ""Under that Christmas Spell"", which includes five arrangements of classic songs and the eponymous single written by Halperin. The album’s final cover, “I'll Be Home for Christmas,” features Hayley Orrantia on vocals. According to Halperin, “Growing up, I worked on a Christmas tree farm for four years. Around Christmas, people in general are more happy and forgiving.” According"
"Jamie Cullum in an interview on Dutch Radio that she wished to explore using high male voices in contrast to her own, deeper, voice. ""Misty"" is about a snowman lover who melts away after a night of passion, and after ""Wild Man"", Elton John and Bush as eternally divided lovers trade vocals on ""Snowed In at Wheeler Street"", while actor Stephen Fry recites the ""50 Words for Snow"". The quiet love song ""Among Angels"" finishes the album. Two stop-motion animation videos were released online to promote the album, one to accompany a section of ""Misty"" (called ""Mistraldespair""), the other to"
"Snow (musician) Darrin Kenneth O'Brien (born October 30, 1969), better known by his stage name Snow, is a Canadian reggae vocalist and recording artist best known for his 1992 single ""Informer"", which spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Snow was born and raised in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario. For much of his childhood, he lived in the Allenbury Gardens public housing project, and at the age of 17, moved to Ajax, Ontario. Growing up in a diverse neighbourhood, O'Brien blended dancehall and reggae with rock and popular music to create his"
"Wild Man (Kate Bush song) ""Wild Man"" is a song by Kate Bush released as the lead single from her tenth studio album ""50 Words for Snow"". It was released as a digital download single in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2011, and peaked at number 73 on the UK Singles Chart. ""Wild Man"" tells the story of sightings of the Yeti in the wilds of the Himalayas, and of the efforts by the narrator and others to protect him from discovery. The song premiered on BBC Radio 2 on Monday 10 October 2011. The 7:16 minute version was"
"Levi Lowrey Levi Lowrey is a singer-songwriter from Dacula, Georgia. He has performed extensively as a solo artist, headliner, and as the supporting act for well known names including Clay Cook, and Zac Brown Band. He is a great-grandson of Gid Tanner. Lowrey is one of the co-writers of the 'Colder Weather' performed by Zac Brown Band that went #1 for two weeks. Lowrey is also the co- writer of Zac Brown Band single 'The Wind"" from their #1 Billboard album Uncaged. He is a CMA nominee for ""Colder Weather"" 2012 BMI Country Award Winner Top 50 songs of the"
"Garth Brooks for his 2005 Limited Series Box Set on the album ""The Lost Sessions"". It has sold over 2 million copies. ""Fighting For"", written by McClure and Cody Canada reached number 39 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Songs chart. It was recorded by Cross Canadian Ragweed for their album ""Garage"". McClure has been working with Joe Hardy since ""Foam"". Reunited with all original members of The Great Divide in August 2011 for a reunion concert in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The band plans to tour lightly throughout 2012. Mike McClure Mike McClure (born July 6, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter,"
"claimed, ""I think my place is inside the box, underneath the guy receiving the gold medal. They're playing the national anthem and I'm fondling a platinum medallion."" Jonathan Winters Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 Grammy nominations, including eight for Best Comedy Album, during his career. From these nominations, he won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for"
"audio-visual solo show 'Ostinato - LIVE' at The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham, Wiltshire. In 2010, Stephen mixed most of the tracks for Kate Bush’s first album in six years, ""Director's Cut"", which entered the UK charts at No. 2 on its release in May 2011. Also in 2011, he was responsible for all of the mixing on ""50 Words for Snow""., as well as recording contributions from Steve Gadd, Elton John and Stephen Fry. The album comprised seven new tracks, with a running time of over an hour. In 2012, he mixed ""Running Up That Hill (A Deal With"
"Animation. In 2015, Bush contributed the track to ""The Art of Peace − Songs for Tibet II"" music compilation album, devoted to the 80th birthday of 14th Dalai Lama. Proceeds from the album will be used to help preserve and promote the wisdom of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan culture. The song was remixed and retitled as ""Wild Man (Remastered Shimmer)"". Wild Man (Kate Bush song) ""Wild Man"" is a song by Kate Bush released as the lead single from her tenth studio album ""50 Words for Snow"". It was released as a digital download single in the United Kingdom"
"internationally. Gordon Lightfoot discography Gordon Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend. Lightfoot's discography comprises 19 studio albums, three live albums, 16 greatest hits albums and 46 singles. Lightfoot's songs, including ""For Lovin' Me"", ""Early Morning Rain"", ""Steel Rail Blues"", ""Ribbon of Darkness""—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins's cover in"
"time with him, and wrote some material that was later recorded for the album ""The Fall"". Ravi Shankar died in 2012. In February 2014, Jones had her first child, a son, with her musician husband. They had a second child in 2016. Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has won many awards and has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. ""Billboard"" named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on ""Billboard"" magazine's artists"
"was released in 2007 and features soul artist Ledisi. Gordon Chambers' album ""Sincere"" was released in August 2011, featuring duets with Sara Devine and Candace Coles, and production by Darien Dorsey, The BeatBanggahz and Jermaine Mobley. The album also includes covers of Donny Hathaway's ""A Song For You"" and his version of ""Missing You"", which he dedicates to late mentors Phyllis Hyman and Gerald Levert. , Chambers is a resident of Brooklyn. Gordon Chambers Gordon Anthony Chambers (c. 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer who has written songs for more than 75 recording artists including Angie Stone, Yolanda"
"Songs for the Season Songs for the Season, or Ingrid Michaelson's Songs for the Season, is the eighth studio album and the first Christmas album by Ingrid Michaelson, released on October 26, 2018. It takes a nostalgic approach to covers of Christmas standards and carols. Michaelson expressed that she loves the Christmas holiday and has wished to record a holiday album for years. Having recorded various Christmas songs such as the charity single ""Winter Song"", a duet with Sara Bareilles, she released ""Snowfall"" in 2017, an EP that compiled the winter- and holiday-themed songs she had recorded over the course"
"a new song, ""Too Old to Dream"", incorporating a segment of ""When I Grow Too Old to Dream"", a popular song with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, published in 1934 and recorded by many artists, most notably Gracie Fields. O'Hooley & Tidow released a single, ""The Last Polar Bear"", in November 2011. The song was taken from their second album, ""The Fragile"", featuring Andy Cutting, Jackie Oates, Anna Esslemont and Cormac Byrne, which was released in February 2012. ""Northern Sky"" music magazine's reviewer described the song as ""utterly beautiful"", saying ""This is how love songs"
"from the 2002 ""Mr. Jones"" album, ""Jezebel"", ""The Letter"", ""Younger Days"", ""Tom Jones International"", ""Holiday"", ""The Road"", ""24 Hours"", ""Seasons"", ""We Got Love"", ""Seen That Face"", ""Give a Little Love"", ""If He Should Ever Leave You"", ""Whatever it Takes"", and ""Traveling Shoes"" from the 2012 album ""Spirit in the Room"". Tom Jones (singer) Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career has spanned six decades, from his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s with a string of top hits, regular touring, appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011), and career"
"the myth that Eskimos have 50 words for snow, which led her to make up increasingly fantastical words herself, such as ""spangladasha"", ""anechoic"", ""blown from Polar fur"", and ""Robber's Veil"". The album's songs are built around Bush's quietly jazzy piano and Steve Gadd's drums (she had just started working with him and praised his ""brilliant drumming""), and utilize both sung and spoken word vocals in what ""Classic Rock""'s Stephen Dalton calls ""a...supple and experimental affair, with a contemporary chamber pop sound grounded in crisp piano, minimal percussion and light-touch electronics...billowing jazz-rock soundscapes, interwoven with fragmentary narratives delivered in a range"
"""Wrote a Song for Everyone"" in 2011, which was released on Vanguard Records on May 28, 2013, his 68th birthday. The album is a collection of classics and tracks from his canon of hits performed with other artists. The album includes two new Fogerty-penned songs. On November 17, 2011 Fogerty performed on the ""Late Show with David Letterman"". On November 17 and 18, Fogerty performed two CCR albums, ""Cosmo's Factory"" and ""Green River"", respectively, in their entirety at the Beacon Theater in New York City (he also played Cosmo's Factory in Atlantic City on November 20). He was also featured"
"Iron. The album topped American publication ""Billboard""'s Heatseekers. All lyrics written by Woody Guthrie, all lead vocals by co-writer. Limited edition bonus disc All music written and performed by Farrar and Parker. Technical Additional musicians New Multitudes New Multitudes is a Woody Guthrie tribute album performed by Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Jim James to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Guthrie's birth, released through Rounder Records on February 28, 2012. The project was initiated by Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie to have Farrar add music to her father's lyrics—specifically, his earliest songwriting years in Los Angeles. Over the course"
"new official website. Snow (Japanese singer) SNoW (pronounced: ""Snow""; born June 11, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese singer and songwriter also known as Yukie. She grew up in a bilingual environment. Her favorite artists include Ani DiFranco, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, and Tracy Chapman. Her debut single """"Yes"""" was released under an indie record label in November 2004. In 2005, she switched labels to Sony Music Entertainment Japan and released ""Hanabi made Ato Sukoshi"" (花火まであとすこし - unofficial translation: ""Until the Fireworks"") in July. Her third single, ""Sakasama no Chō"" (逆さまの蝶 - unofficial translation: ""Resting Butterfly""), was released on"