Liane Carroll – Slow Down

Liane Carroll – Slow Down
Liane Carroll’s much-anticipated release Slow Down delivers the goods as Liane, her piano, and her remarkable Jazz voice rewards us with her best release to date.
Slow Down: Memphis In June, All The Way, Lazy Susan, You Can’t Show My Heart Down, Let Me Be What You Be To Me, Catch The Wind, In My Solitude, Willow Weep For Me, The World Stopped Turning, All of Me, One Fine Day, If I loved You, Lazy Afternoon, Take It With Me
Personnel: Liane Carroll: vocals, grand piano, Wurlitzer electric piano on all tracks except If I Loved You; Ian Shaw: piano on If I Loved You
Slow Down was produced by Neal Richardson on the Splash Point Records label; this is the third release by Liane on the Splash Point Records label. Two of Liane’s previous releases Standard Issue and Billy No Mates are also great releases; Standard Issue is the release that followed her winning Two BBC Jazz Awards in 2005. In addition, Liane received the UK Female Singer of the Year 2007 at the inaugural Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards.
Slow Down was recorded ‘live’ in a phenomenal 4-hour recording session with just Liane and her piano, which if you have had the experience to catch Liane perform live as I have, you would know that Liane and a piano is as good as it gets. Liane is about emotion, passion, and energy, where one minute she is tugging at your heart, and the next minute she is making you smile. The track If I Loved you is in remembrance of Liane’s grandmother who raised her and as Liane tells it, her grandmother loved to sing a duet with Liane of “If I Loved you.” To keep her grandmother’s flame alive, Liane, who dedicated Slow Down to her granddaughter, will carry on the loving ritual and sing this special song to her.
Liane’s voice is commanding and when she scats on the track Memphis In June, you cannot help but compare her to the jazz greats like Sarah Vaughn and Dinah Washington. What I find amazing is her ability to draw a resonance from her piano that is in direct complement to her vocal timbre (Liane and her piano – as good as it gets).
Liane’s selection of Hoagy Carmichael’s Memphis In June to lead off the release is what great performances are made of, a song to engage your audience and get them wanting more, and she delivers. Cornering the emotional elements of a song is heard throughout the release and especially in Liane’s rendition of All The Way where every word is sung with fervor. Liane opens her heart through her voice and fingers as she moves through Slow Down; there is no letting up on this release. In fact, it seems that as you progress through each track that the lyrics and Liane’s rendition draws you deeper into her soul.
Slow Down takes the listener on a heartfelt journey as Liane sings songs that mean so much to her; each selection was carefully selected from her heart, and you feel the impact that that they have left on her, as they will the listener.
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Street Glory NasPop Lyrics

[NAS] (Intro)

Uhh, still out in these motherfuckin projects

Still a nigga ain’t never gonna get the fuck up outta here

Niggaz just don’t understand the story

Chorus: [Pop]

Niggaz die for the street glory

Go to trial get tried for each story

And each nigga got a story

And QB the streets call me

So if you see me slippin’ reach for me

I’m goin’ after street glory

Go to trial get tried for each story

And each nigga got a story

And QB the streets call me

So if you see me slippin’ reach for me

I’m goin’ after street glory

[NAS]

Yo,

Every time I turn around niggaz shot, niggaz stabbed

When tonight’s pregnant girls struggling to get a cab

Fiends lurkin’, D’s searchin’ pat pockets

Kids put to bed duck they heads from gas poppin’

Queensbridge slingin’ hoppin’ our benches

Don status, throw feeds, got sirenges

Poppin’ out they arm scratched

Now remember parked (???)

Cuz’ else perfect ways, shell adidas

Smellin’ reefer way before purple haze

Private stock peer nigga with ill walks like Mark Clare

Has tilted wild niggaz lickin’ shots in the air

Me and Pop was there through the years our names have switched

Ain’t nothin’ changed but the names Nastradamus and Blitz

What project is this? QB burnin’ in tint

12th street murderous pimps, hot as hell’s heat

What could you tell me? Niggas seen it all in this game

When it’s all said and done just remember our name

[Pop]

I’m familiar with the dead grass drama black gates and crime

Embryo of the ghetto born face and time

Niggas shatter they dreams while I’m chasing mine

Ghetto fame got a fellow’s name draped and shined

How do I describe an atmosphere where streets are polluted?

Where corruptors and new police being recruited

Somehow I make it through the day stayin’ secluded

While the blues aim leavin’ another slain, executed

Many thought’s cause I see the past grimmly

That could’ve been me, explodes out on 41st and 10th street

Through all the pap grease and street chases

Sudden raids and confrontations leadin the misdeamenor weed cases

I blew smoke through hallway window

Watched the buddah clouds lingo

Pluckin the blunt brokes from my fingers

My eyes flip different shades

Similar to people you meet everyday who be displayin’ wicked ways

Seein’ nothing but another day

In this six story rat trap

Them gats clap another nigga’s blazed

Events in my hood rotate

Like the battle on the 38 snob in the world of fake love

Before I blaze son, I’m kissing the slugs

Coming at you kisses and hugs

When death calls who’s really a thug

The street glory got me deeply in love

Can’t shake it, can’t take it, can’t make it

Got me needin’ this drug

(Chorus

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