Details
Track Listing
1. You're the One
2. Heartbreak Radio
3. We'll Take the Night
4. Crying - (featuring K.D. Lang)
5. After the Love Has Gone
6. Love In Time
7. I Drove All Night
8. Wild Hearts Run Out of Time
9. Coming Home
10. Careless Heart (Original Demo)
11. Life Fades Away
Album Notes
Contains material from the MYSTERY GIRL sessions.
Personnel: Roy Orbison (vocals, guitar); k.d. lang (vocals); Dean Parks (guitar, mandolin); Mark Goldenberg (guitar, accordion, mandolin); Robbie Robertson, T-Bone Burnett, Brent Rowan, Larry Byrum, David Hidalgo, Reggie Young, J.R. Cobb, Josh Sklair, Steve Gibson (guitar); Joel Derouin, Berj Garabedian, Armand Garabedian, Charles Bicharat, Bruce Dukov (violin); Tom Talley (viola); Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama (cello); Mike Utley, Sid Paige, Ezra Killinger, Pavel Farkas, Henry Corbett, David Campbell, Maria Newman (strings); Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica); Clarence Clemons (saxophone); Jim Cox, Larry Knechtal (piano); Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood (keyboards); David Briggs (keyboards, synthesizer); Benmont Tench, Don Was (Hammond B-3, background vocals); Booker T. Jones (Hammond B-3), Larry Klein (bass, keyboards); Buel Neidlinger (acoustic bass), Larry Paxton, James Hutchinson, James Johnson, Mike Leech, T-Bone Wolk (bass); Alex Acuna (drums, percussion); Kenny Buttrey, Ricky Fataar, Jeff Porcaro, Gene Chrisman, Jim Keltner (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Tony Warren, Alex Brown, Jackie Gouche, Willie Greene, Everette Drake, Wayne Murray, Francine Reed, Andrew Gold, Diane Warren, Barbara Orbison, Albert Hammond, Doug Fieger, Michael J. Libow (background vocals).
Producers include: T-Bone Burnett, Robbie Robertson, Will Jennings, Don Was, Jeff Lynne.
Engineers include: Rik Pekkonen, George Massenburg, Jim Scott.
Liner Note Author: Barbara Orbison.
Recording information: The Village Records, Los Angeles, CA; Oceanway Studio 2, Los Angeles, CA; The House Of David Studio, Nashville, TN; Kingswat Studio, New Orleans, LA; Ocean Way Studios; Criterion Studios, Hollywood, CA; Sun Studios, Memphis, TN; 03/10/1987.
Released four years after Roy Orbison's sudden death on the cusp of a major commercial and critical comeback, the compilation KING OF HEARTS consists of Orbison's final recordings, primarily outtakes from his comeback album MYSTERY GIRL. While these utterly contemporary-sounding recordings don't have quite the same mystery and grandeur as prime Orbison, they're not bad.
A couple of tracks had been previously released, most notably a stunning duet with k.d. lang on Orbison's classic "Crying" which had been used on the soundtrack of the 1986 Jon Cryer film HIDING OUT. The highlight of the new material is a version of the Kelly-Steinberg effort "I Drove All Night" which shreds Cyndi Lauper's 1990 hit, but all of the material, recorded with the same band of all-stars which had graced MYSTERY GIRL, is excellent and well-chosen. And, of course, brilliantly sung.
Industry Reviews
...the remake of `Crying' with K.D. Lang is worth the price by itself...
Stereo Review (01/01/1993)
...much more than a posthumous collection of leftovers...you won't want to miss this one...
Audio Magazine (01/01/1993)
...[a] respectfully assembled posthumous coda... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (10/30/1992)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...outstanding...the fragile quavering voice sounding battered and broken by despair, yet still radiating a monumental warmth and passion...
Q (12/01/1992)
|
)
)
All rights reserved.
