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First the bad news, there are a couple tracks here that are just plain wretched. Whoever thought to put the Olivia Newton-John track on this must have been smoking bananas or was knee-slapping themselves silly in the studio. Same goes for the Phil Keaggy track (The original one-CD tribute "Strong Hand of Love" had a terrible track by Phil [different song- same result] and Bruce Carroll, which have mercifully been left off here). The remainder of the bad news are tracks by artists who's minds either temporally left them (Marvin Etzioni, Ramona Silver) choose bad arrangements (John Austin, Bob) are just wrong for Mark's material (Iain, Carolyn Arends, Glen Kaiser) or (since I'm writing the review) songs I don't like (Kate Taylor, Tom Prasada-Rao). Which leaves us with the good news, and mighty good news it is, for there are 20 or so tracks here that are a perfect marriage of artist and material, transforming Mark's already world class songs to even higher heights: Vigilantes Of Love's "Freight Train To Nowhere," Harrod and Funck's "Worry Too Much," Pat Terry's "Mercy of the Flame," Pierce Pettis' "Nod Over Coffee," Randy Stonehill and Kate Miner's "Look Over Your Shoulder," Big Faith's "All She Wanted Was Love," Daniel Amos' "Strong Hand Of Love," Chagall Guevara's "Treasure Of A Broken Land," Ashley Cleveland's "It's Not Your Fault," Dan Russell "I Just Wanna Get Warm," Brooks Williams' "Rise From the Ruins," Bruce Cockburn's "Strong Hand of Love," The Williams Brothers' "House of Broken Dreams," Kevin Smith's "Lonely Moon," Tonio K's "Another Day in Limbo," Swinging Steaks' "Long Way Down," Colin Linden's "Dry Bones Dance" and especially Michael Been's "We Know Too Much," and Buddy & Julie Miller's "Orphans of God." I've listened to these songs hundreds of times... its shameful hyperbole, but I think they are comparable to anything, anytime, anywhere, Beatles, Beach Boys, Beethoven, you name it, pure unadulterated gold. {note to the reviewer below, Mark Heard was 41 years old when he died in 1992} |
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