Donny & Marie Osmond - Donny and Marie [5/3] *

Artist:

Donny & Marie

UPC:

653738257422

Description:

Personnel: Bobby Terry (acoustic guitar, gut-string guitar); Buddy Cannon (acoustic guitar, background vocals); John Willis (acoustic guitar); Kenny Greenberg, Pat Buchanan (electric guitar); Sonny Garrish (steel guitar); Scott Vestal (banjo); Dan Tyminski (mandolin); Rob Mader (alto saxophone); Rocco Barbato (tenor saxophone); Miguel Rodriguez (baritone saxophone); Gil Kaupp (trumpet); Nathan Tanouye (trombone); John Hobbs (piano, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer); Gavin DeGraw, Jim "Moose" Brown (piano); Randy McCormick (Hammond b-3 organ, synthesizer); Tony Castle (synthesizer); Paul Leim (drums, percussion, drum programming); Cindy Richardson Walker, Jerry Williams, Rachael Lauren, Don Marrandino, Mekenna Bree, John Wesley Ryles, Stephen James, Melonie Cannon (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Tony Castle.
Recording information: Blackbird Recording Studios, Nashville, TN; Digital Insight Recording Studios, Las Vegas, NV; Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, TN; Record Lab Recording Studio, Provo, UT; Westwood Sound Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Brandon Osmond.
It`s been 30-some years since Donny & Marie Osmond recorded an album of new material, so it`s only appropriate that Donny & Marie`s eponymous 2011 album sound a bit like it could have come out during the pre-MTV early `80s, its opening "A Beautiful Life" boasting a chorus that would feel right at home on a TV sitcom. Donny & Marie maintains that blissfully unaware time warp throughout its long running time. Some traces of the modern world creep in, whether it`s a line about a guy who works at WalMart or a pummeling Gavin DeGraw hook, but producer Buddy Cannon is keenly aware that neither Donny & Marie nor their audience care much for anything contemporary that isn`t modified by the word "adult," so that`s what he helps them serve up: sunniness so sweet that every track sticks together. There`s no separating the smiling ballads and the cheerful pop songs, partially because the whole album is so lengthy it quickly loses any sense of momentum. Then again, Donny & Marie isn`t an album with a purpose other than offering hardcore fans a bunch of new recordings by the Osmond siblings -- and that`s precisely what it delivers song after song, all of them new but feeling old, cozy, and comfortable. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Beautiful Life, A
2. Vegas Love
3. I Know This Much Is True
4. You Can Do Anything
5. I Have You to Thank
6. My Reflection
7. Good Life, The
8. Best of Me, The
9. I Can`t Wait
10. Touch
11. One Last Goodbye
12. Better Off Blue
13. I Swear
14. We Will Find a Way
15. Candle in the Rain
16. Tell Me to Breathe

Album Information

Release Date:

05/03/2011

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Country

Label:

MPCA

Producer:

Jerome Bunke; Buddy Cannon

Catalog Number:

MPCA25742

Original Release Year:

2011

# of Discs:

1

Runtime:

62 : 17

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