The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123614   Message #2723990
Posted By: Mooh
15-Sep-09 - 06:43 AM
Thread Name: Wild Horses, from her CD, Susan Boyle
Subject: RE: Wild Horses, from her CD, Susan Boyle
Lovely controlled but natural vibrato, nice and somewhat original inflections, no huge slurs, intelligible words, breaths in the right places, no extra vocal noises, good range without strain, sounds like she means every word, altogether a worthy listen except for the schmaltzey production standards.

They need to take some chances with her arrangements, after all, the accompaniment wasn't written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and can't be carried by supreme harmony. The plodding piano and mushy strings are second rate, and don't seem to flatter her character or her voice. There's also one stupid sounding piano chord, I'll have to listen again to identify it.

Peace, Mooh.