ARTIST: Carly Simon
TITLE: Into White
LABEL: Columbia
GENRE: Pop
BITRATE: 178kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 41min total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-01-02
RIP DATE: 2006-12-24

Track List

01. Into White                      2:49
02. Oh! Susanna                     2:58
03. Blackbird                       2:30
04. You Can Close Your Eyes (With   3:21
Ben Taylor & Sally Taylor)
05. Quiet Evening                   4:22
06. Manha De Carnaval (Theme from   2:22
"Black Orpheus")
07. Jamaica Farewell                3:29
08. You Are My Sunshine             2:36
09. I Gave My Love A Cherry (The    2:51
Riddle Song)
10. Devoted To You / All I Have To  2:58
Do Is Dream
11. Scarborough Fair                3:39
12. Over The Rainbow                2:24
13. Love Of My Life                 2:54
14. I'll Just Remember You          2:27

Release Notes:

For a CD with a lot of soft songs on it--"Scarborough Fair," "Over the Rainbow,"
"You Are My Sunshine"--Into White sends a loud message, that being: when you're
as important an artist as Carly Simon, you can pretty much sing what you want,
which accounts for this disc's genre confusion. Part kids' record, part
under-the-covers project, Into White feels a little like it went for a toss in
the Simon residence's salad spinner; "Oh! Susanna," which has rarely sounded
sweeter, is followed by a beautiful reading of the Beatles' poetic "Blackbird,"
which segues into a family sing-along to ex-husband James Taylor's classic "You
Can Close Your Eyes" (son and daughter Ben and Sally Taylor pitch in on
harmonies). Deciding whether to play it on the way to morning kindergarten or
during brunch for your mellow sweetheart, then, can be brutal. But the choice to
buy it or bypass it shouldn't be. Simon, vocally sure-footed as ever, wicks the
warmth out of every last track and directs it with pinpoint precision to her
listeners--nobody does music as comfort food better. Perhaps nobody knows how to
pluck from her own catalog better, either: closing this artful jumble of a
late-career disc is the abominably under-appreciated but gorgeous "Love of My
Life," from the largely forgotten 1992 film This is My Life.