Noel brazil songwriter sands
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Album Reviews
The death of Noel Brazil, Mary Black’s long time collaborator and favorite songwriter, weighs heavily on the song selection here.
The album is populated with songs of sadness, resignation and rebirth.
Listen to the heartfelt “Your Love” and you’ve got the picture: “How can I say what I feel?/When I turn around you’re not here/I know its my time to lead/But the emptiness inside leaves me weak.”
The song before that is a reworking of Bob Dylan’s “Lay Down Your Weary Tune,” made familiar to many by The Byrds’ cover, while the opener is the Land of Love,” a Noel Brazil song about “passing through the pearly gates.”
The album title is pulled from “The Real You,” another Brazil original that makes clear the connection between singer and songwriter.
The album has all of the expected Mary Black pleasures despite the pervasive sadness: great songwriting, impeccable arrangements of acoustic instruments and carefully placed background singers and of course Black’s evocat