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- Summary: Joe Henry returns as producer for the second jazz/blues release for actor-singer Hugh Laurie.
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- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Genre(s): Blues, Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock, Stage & Screen
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Unchain My Heart | |
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Unchain my heart Baby let me be Unchain my heart 'Cause you don't care about me You've got me sowed up like a pillow case But you let my love go to... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 9
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Mixed: 7 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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Aug 6, 2013It’s hard to pull off this kind of stuff successfully, anyway, but it’s even harder when you have to battle the preconceptions that come with initially making your bones as an actor. Hugh Laurie overcomes all those obstacles with a collection that doesn’t reach too far beyond what it wants to do (and for that type of self-awareness alone the whole thing should be lauded).
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May 10, 2013It’s surprisingly how unaffecting and mediocre most of it is.
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May 7, 2013Whilst there are occasional high points, it’s best to cherry-pick the highlights from Didn’t It Rain and leave the rest.
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May 7, 2013Nobody is concerned with reinterpreting the songs or surprising a listener, they just want to enjoy re-creating sounds and tunes they've loved, an attitude that's rarely alienating although it's never quite infectious, either.
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MojoMay 20, 2013No one sounds like they are having much fun on this follow-up and his rearrangements of the classics on piano add nothing new to the songs. [Jun 2013, p.84]
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Aug 6, 2013If Laurie hasn't produced something new under the sun, he nonetheless brings more light to certain dark places of the songbook than all too many American interpreters.
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UncutMay 7, 2013Laurie reprises his well-intentioned but essentially unconvincing bluesman shtick. [Jun 2013, p.75]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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