Rumer — Boys Don't Cry (2012) |
Rumer — Boys Don´t Cry
Birth name: Sarah Joyce
Also known as: Sarah Prentice
Born: 3 June 1979, Islamabad, Pakistan
Location: London, UK
Album released: 28 May 2012
Recorded: 2010 - 2012
Genre: Soul, Easy Listening
Record Label: Atlantic Records
Duration: xxx
Tracks:
01. "P.F. Sloan" (Jimmy Webb) 4:10
02. "It Could be the First Day" (Richie Havens) 2:27
03. "Be Nice to Me" (Todd Rundgren) 3:27
04. "Travelin' Boy" (Paul Williams / Roger Nichols) 3:20
05. "Soulsville" (Isaac Hayes) 3:46
06. "The Same Old Tears On A New Background" (Stephen Bishop) 2:50
07. "Sara Smile" (Hall & Oates) 3:33
08. "Flyin' Shoes" (Townes Van Zandt) 4:04
09. "Home Thoughts From Abroad" (Clifford T. Ward) 3:27
10. "Just For a Moment" (Ronnie Lane) 2:39
11. "Brave Awakening" (Terry Reid) 4:10
12. "We Will" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) 4:00
Special Edition:
13. "Andre Johray" (Tim Hardin) 2:54
14. "Soul Rebel" (Bob Marley) 3:33
15. "My Cricket" (Leon Russell) 2:50
16. "A Man Needs a Maid" (Neil Young) 3:59
Notes:
¶ P.F. Sloan" was the first single released from the album, it was released on May 4, 2012.
¶ Note that the track listing on the U.S. version is different and that the song "Andre Johray" by Tim Hardin is not included at all. Instead it includes the song "Welcome Back" by John Sebastian.
Website: http://www.rumer.co.uk/
Credits:
• Alexa Afia Violin
• Helen Atkinson Engineer
• Matt Backer Guitar
• Max Bell Liner Notes
• Mark Berrow Violin
• Stephen Bishop Composer, Tributee
• Rachel Stephanie Bolt Viola
• Christopher Bond Composer
• Michael H. Brauer Mixing
• Walter Briski Jr. Art Direction, Photography
• Steve Brown Autoharp, Engineer, Flute, Harp, Percussion, Producer, String Arr., Vocals (Backg)
• Cormac Browne Violin
• Dan Carpenter Trumpet
• Paul Clarvis Percussion
• Julian Cox Bass
• Dan Curwin Photography
• Dave Daniels Cello
• Daryl Hall & John Oates Tributee
• Malcolm Doherty Vocals (Background)
• Melvin Duffy Pedal Steel Guitar
• Richard Edwards Trombone (Tenor)
• Geoff Foster Engineer, Producer
• Simon Gardner Flugelhorn
• Ryan Gilligan Mixing Assistant, Pro-Tools
• Bobbie Gordon Vocals (Background)
• Daryl Hall Composer
• Susan Harriott Vocals (Background)
• David Hartley Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond), Piano, Wurlitzer
• Richie Havens Composer, Tributee
• Andy Hayes Design
• Isaac Hayes Composer, Tributee
• Nicky Holland Oboe
• Mike Hosey Design
• Julian Jackson Harmonica
• Alexa Kidd-May Violin
• Patrick Kiernan Violin
• Kirsten Klingels Violin
• Bob Knight Drums
• James Knight Saxophone
• Josephine Knight Cello
• Boguslaw Kostecki Violin
• Peter Lale Viola
• Ronnie Lane Composer, Tributee
• David Lee French Horn
• Bob Ludwig Mastering
• Rita Manning Violin
• Cliff Masterson String Arrangements
• Ciaran McCabe Violin
• Perry Montague-Mason Violin
• Steve Morris Violin
• Jennie Muskett Producer, String Arrangements
• Roger Nicols Composer
• John Oates Composer
• Gilbert O'Sullivan Composer, Tributee
• John Parricelli Guitar
• Steve Pearce Bass, Double Bass
• Ladonna Harley Peters Vocals (Background)
• Jonathan Rees Violin
• Tom Rees-Roberts Flugelhorn
• Terry Reid Composer, Tributee
• Frank Ricotti Percussion, Vibraphone
• Rumer Art Direction, Executive Producer, Photography, Producer, Vocals, Vocals (Backgr.)
• Todd Rundgren Composer, Tributee
• Maria Ryan Violin
• Emlyn Singleton Violin
• Rob Taggart Piano
• Jamie Talbot Sax (Tenor)
• Ian Thomas Drums
• Chris Tombling Violin
• Mark Tree Percussion
• Townes Van Zandt Composer, Tributee
• Clifford T. Ward Composer, Tributee
• Vicci Wardman Viola
• Jimmy L. Webb Composer, Tributee
• Bruce White Viola
• Annabel Williams Vocals (Background)
• Paul Williams Composer, Tributee
• Carsten Windhorst Photography
• Ron Wood Tributee
• Warren Zielinski Violin
Awards:
• 2012 P.F. Sloan Japan Hot 100 Singles #22
BBC Review:
Sarah Joyce covers male songwriters both culty and canonical on album number two.
¶ Paul Lester 2012-05-23
¶ On Boys Don’t Cry, the follow-up to her million-selling 2010 debut Seasons of My Soul, Rumer has recorded versions of tracks written by men in the 1970s. It doesn’t quite have the subversive qualities that Tori Amos’ similarly themed 2001 album Strange Little Girls had – with the possible exception of her take on Neil Young’s A Man Needs a Maid, where the sense and meaning of the original are somewhat altered by its being performed by a woman in 2012.
¶ Often, with its covers of songs by Todd Rundgren, Hall & Oates, Stephen Bishop, Paul Williams, Clifford T Ward, Gilbert O’Sullivan and Jimmy Webb, Boys Don't Cry feels like Rumer’s deep immersion in the pantheon of arcane US and UK MOR rock prompted her to construct an alternative canon of commercial tunesmiths requiring critical rehabilitation. In almost every instance she inhabits the songs to such an extent that they feel like her own compositions, even when the titles at first seem inappropriate.
Williams’ Travelin’ Boy is one of two tracks here by a songwriter formerly covered by Karen Carpenter, whose voice Rumer’s resembles to an uncanny degree. Not for nothing did she recently receive the approbation of Richard Carpenter to go along with her plaudits from Elton John and Burt Bacharach.
¶ The object of the project was, she says, to make a record that described the solace and anguish she’s experienced since achieving success and fame. Hence all the songs – including Travelin’ Boy, Ward’s Home Thoughts From Abroad and Flyin' Shoes by Townes Van Zandt – about rootlessness and longing to be home.
¶ It goes without saying that Rumer’s performances are uniformly technically flawless and models of restraint. Boys Don't Cry works superbly as a companion piece to Seasons..., the harmonic richness of the music and lush chord sequences showing exactly where her allegiances lie: Be Nice to Me is Rumer doing Rundgren doing Laura Nyro doing Bacharach, and Travelin' Boy suggests an album’s worth of collaborations with the composer of Rainy Days and Mondays would be no bad thing.
¶ Boys Don’t Cry posits Rumer as a throwback, albeit a glorious one, to a bygone era, when the songwriting verities of the Brill Building were transposed to LA’s Laurel Canyon. Fabulous stuff.
Rumer — Boys Don't Cry (2012) |