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Live at Wolf Trap
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Live at Wolf Trap
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Since leaving her long-term berth at
in the mid-'80s,
has made a couple of more stabs at major-label affiliation, but without re-igniting the kind of commercial appeal it takes to sustain such deals. Nevertheless, she has managed to make quite a few records, many of them fitting into niche categories --
albums, children's albums, etc.
, released on her own
label, presents her standard concert repertoire. Recorded June 18, 2000, at the venerable Virginia outdoor auditorium where she has appeared regularly for decades, the show was also videotaped for a public television special. The 61-year-old singer, still in remarkably fine voice, gives her audience the songs they came to hear, her hits and signature tunes:
Also included are some other songs she's been performing since the 1960s, her own composition
She sings several traditional songs, harking back to her earliest days as an interpretive
singer. (An a cappella
is especially impressive.) And she performs a couple of worthy recent songs from her own pen,
and
The arrangements are familiar, and though
takes occasional slight liberties with the melodies, she never disturbs listeners who have the original recordings burned into their memories. It's easy to cite songs that were left out (
), and it would have been nice if
had talked a little more, but it would be hard to part with anything here, so maybe such complaints are just a way of wishing this was a two-disc set. ~ William Ruhlmann