Something Real

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Phoebe Snow

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Phoebe Snow means Talented and gifted. What a truely amazing woman, I wish I had half her talent, Id be rich and famous, but alas I can only dream!

Phoebe has a unique voice that is easily distinctive from the rest, the music is not harsh, allowing her voice to drift over you in all its lyrical beauty is wonderfully satisfying.

I love this album, I have three copies of it in case I lose one, I love it that much, to me she is on par with Stevie Wonder which is high praise indeed, since I love him absolutely! I wish she would recieve more recognition as she is an incredible artist, a singer songwriter a brilliant guitarist and pianist she is so obscenely talented it makes you ill! I am inadequately glad that she exsists, this world would be all the poorer without her. So she is yet another who I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, get a copy enjoy and be pleasantly blown away!

I had this album on cassette when it first was relaeased. That was when VH-1 used to show music videos 24/7. I saw the video for one of the songs, "If I Can Just Get Through the Night", and I liked it so much that I bought the cassette (wasn't buying cd's yet). I hadn't played the cassette, or any cassettes for that matter, for years. I recently came across the cassette and tried to play it, just to discover the magnetic tape had broken. That's when I looked up the title on Amazon and I ordered the cd. I still like that one song very much, but the rest of the songs aren't as good as I remembered them to be. Phoebe Snow is very talented, but on this collection, she has a tendency to slur the lyrics, making it difficult to understand what she is singing about. And there are too many 'moody' songs with mediocre melodies. She does a respectable cover version of "Best of My Love", which, after listening to a number of 'downer' songs that precede it, comes as a refreshing lift. "If I Can Just Get Through the Night" and "Best of My Love" save this cd from a * rating. Overall rating ***