Good Friends (Livingston Taylor album)
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| Released | 1993 | |||
| Recorded | April 16–17, 1993 | |||
| Studio | MasterSound, Queens, NY | |||
| Genre | Pop, Folk, Jazz | |||
| Length | 46:52 | |||
| Label | Chesky Records | |||
| Producer | David Chesky, Joel Diamond | |||
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Good Friends is singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor's ninth album, released in 1993.
The album is full of skillfully crafted pop songs and classics with a jazzy twist. Taylor includes several cover songs along with his own, self-penned, material. His cover of Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands" takes the original's simple arrangement (just a bluesy electric guitar, bass and drums behind Wither's voice) and recreates the song into a gospel-choir backed a cappella performance.[1] Based on the lyrics, the Grandma of this song was a religious woman who “clapped in church on Sunday morning” and “played a tambourine so well.”[citation needed] He also tackles the Wizard of Oz selections, "If I Only Had a Brain" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Keeping with the Chesky Records standards,[2] as the back-cover reads, this album was "recorded with minimalist miking techniques and without overdubbing or artificial enhancement to ensure the purest and most natural sound possible."
