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Track Listing
1. Tomorrow Comes
2. Green
3. When the Lights Go Down
4. Good Times
5. Another Woman's Dream
6. Stay Awhile
7. Hard Times
8. Olivia
9. In the Bath
10. Picture Perfect Morning
11. Lost in the Moment
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Edie Brickell (vocals, guitar); John Leventhal, Bill Dillon, Brian Soltz, Kenny Withrow (guitar); Larry Campbell (pedal steel, violin); Steve Riley (accordion); Herb Besson, Mike Davis, James Pugh, (trombone); Leon Pendarvis (synthesizers); Joel Diamond (organ); Dave Samuels (vibraphone); Tony Hall, Butch Amiot, Brad Houser (bass); Willie Green, Shawn Pelton (drums); Cyro Baptista, Mingo Araujo, Crusher Bennett, Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Madeleine Yayodele Nelson (chakeire, background vocals); Charles Elam, Terrance Manuel, Earl Smith, Jr., Phyllis Bethel, Victor Cook, Dennis King, Maurice Lauchner, Vivian Cherry (background vocals).
Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York.
With the arrival of PICTURE PERFECT MORNING, songwriter Edie Brickell offers some tangible hints as to what life might be like after the New Bohemians. Not surprisingly, given the presence of engineer-producer Roy Halee and producer-husband Paul Simon, the sound is an appealing mix of R&B and folkie sources, animated by Brickell's sing-songy delivery, beatnik inflections and her lovingly detailed, stream of consciousness narratives.
PICTURE PERFECT MORNING chronicles the emotional closures and false starts that distinguish relationships in flux. On "Tomorrow Comes" Brickell envisions the passing of time and the fading of passion over a bumptious New Orleans groove, while her ambivalence finally gets the best of her on "Green," as in green with envy at the happiness of others (or merely nostalgic for a more bucolic rural existence). The folkish "When The Lights Go Down" and the soul-tinted "Good Times" (featuring a vocal break by Barry White) betray an elemental fear of being alone, even as the sly "In The Bath" chronicles her need to get away from everything--her work, her friends...even herself.
Industry Reviews
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...a glut of formidable songs....Brickell's unique turn of phrase and her cinematic approach to characterisation...
Q (12/01/1996)
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