Phoebe Snow - Japanese DSD Remastered CD '2011 (Four Reissued Albums)

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Phoebe Snow - Second Childhood (1976)
FLAC+CUE+LOG - 226 MB | Full Scans - 52 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 91 MB
Featuring 2011's DSD Remastering | 40:07 mins | Label: Sony Japan | Cat. # SICP-3209

Although it lacked a hit single to match "Poetry Man," Phoebe Snow's second album was another folk-pop-jazz confection that effectively showcased her one-of-a-kind voice in musical settings featuring the cream of New York's session musicians, and produced by Phil Ramone. It was a classy job on which Snow contributed seven originals and displayed her versatility on covers ranging from Motown to Gershwin.

– William Ruhlmann, allmusic com

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Phoebe Snow - It Looks Like Snow (1976)
FLAC+CUE+LOG - 290 MB | Full Scans - 56 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 113 MB
Featuring 2011's DSD Remastering | 49:39 mins | Label: Sony Japan | Cat. # SICP-3210

David Rubinson's production of Phoebe Snow on the 1976 release It Looks Like Snow is an overpowering collection of pop-jazz-funk-folk that puts this amazing vocalist's talents in a beautiful light. Whether it's the Bowen/Bond/Hazel blues classic "Shakey Ground," which Elton John, Etta James, and so many others have explored, or her exquisite interpretation of the Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down," there is no doubt the material here should have ruled on the airwaves the year after her Top Five smash, "Poetry Man." How could Columbia Records not have this material saturating radio across America is the question. There are string arrangements by Sonny Burke and horn arrangements by Kurt McGettrick; the guests galore – from David Bromberg and Ray Parker, Jr. on guitars (along with Snow, Greg Poree, and Steve Burgh) to David Pomeranz on keys – make the Snow/Pomeranz co-write "Mercy on Those" into a majestic and extra-special showstopper. The singer's solo composition "Drink Up the Melody (Bite the Dust, Blues)" has her dipping into Maria Muldaur territory, and a duet between the two divas here would've been sensational. "My Faith Is Blind," soaked in gospel introspection, takes the album to another level with its soul searching and sense of spiritual discovery. It Looks Like Snow is a major work from a fabulous performer traversing styles and genres with ease and elegance.

– Joe Viglione, allmusic com

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Phoebe Snow - Never Letting Go (1977)
FLAC+CUE+LOG - 192 MB | Full Scans - 64 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 76 MB
Featuring 2011's DSD Remastering | 33:21 mins | Label: Sony Japan | Cat. # SICP-3211

Phoebe Snow made it onto the soul charts with her version of Barbara Acklin's 1968 hit "Love Makes a Woman" (#87), which served as the leadoff track of her fourth album. But the record marked a fall-off in both her commercial success and her artistic accomplishment. The tasty studio musicians and Phil Ramone's pop-jazz production were still in place, and Snow remained a remarkable singer, but her synthesis of styles was beginning to seem not so much inspired as muddled.

– William Ruhlmann, allmusic com

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Phoebe Snow - Against The Grain (1978)
FLAC+CUE+LOG - 259 MB | Full Scans - 62 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 89 MB
Featuring 2011's DSD Remastering | 39:14 mins | Label: Sony Japan | Cat. # SICP-3212

Phoebe Snow should have, could have, had hits with her covers of Paul McCartney's "Every Night" and the Roches' "The Married Men," but by her fourth Columbia album and fifth release overall, the company seems to have been content to let her records find their audience without pushing them. (Actually, "Every Night" did hit number 79 in the U.K.) Maybe they'd given up trying to figure out whether she was a folk singer, a pop singer, a soul singer, or a jazz singer, and forgot that she was a great singer. The decision to add Barry Beckett as co-producer with Phil Ramone helped add an R&B depth and fervor, but Against the Grain was just a more impassioned effort than its predecessor. That didn't keep Columbia from dropping Phoebe Snow when it didn't hit, though.

– William Ruhlmann, allmusic com