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Track Listing
1. Looking For Elvis
2. Like Any Woman Would
3. Town Called Heartbreak
4. Play Around
5. Rainy Day Man
6. Word, The
7. Bad For You
8. Run, Run, Run
9. Play It as It Lays
10. Black Ladder
Album Notes
Personnel: Patti Scialfa (acoustic guitar); Ron Aniello (guitar); Steve Jordan, Bruce Springsteen (acoustic guitar); Nils Lofgren (dobro); Mark Stewart (banjo); Clofford Carter (keyboards); Scott Tibbs (synthesizer); Willie Weeks, Jeremy Chatzky (bass guitar); Crusher Bennet (percussion); Cindy Mizelle, Curtis King, Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore (background vocals).
Forever better-known for being Mrs. Bruce Springsteen than for her own music, Patti Scialfa owes more musically to a kindred foxy redhead, Bonnie Raitt. The pop-rock of PLAY IT AS IT LAYS has a bluesy edge akin to Raitt's that suits Scialfa's admirably careworn voice. Named after Joan Didion's starkly depressing novel but bearing a joyful feel out of the Stax Records studios, PLAY IT AS IT LAYS features the rollicking first single "Looking For Elvis," the equally powerful strutter "Town Called Heartbreak," and the moody piano ballad "The Word."
Industry Reviews
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [O]n these tightly focused, grown-up vignettes about sin and salvation and the hard-fought struggles for honesty in a relationship, she slurs and bebops like Rickie Lee Jones.
3 stars out of 5 -- Scialfa's third is the most complete and satisfying of her career, the lyrical candour matched by the open-ended optimism of the band...
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