Mood Swing

Track Listings

1. I See Your Face Before Me

2. Indian Summer

3. Autumn Nocturne

4. I Can't Escape From You

5. Just You, Just Me

6. Fun To Be Fooled

7. Devil May Care

8. Listen Little Girl / When Sunny Gets Blue

9. Whisper Not

10. Ridin' High

11. Someone To Light Up My Life

Editorial Reviews
Katie Malloch, Jazz Beat - CBC Radio Two
"If you're a lover of song, then I know you'll want to add Moodswing to your collection."

Product Description
(from Martin Charnin's notes to the cd:"Moodswing")

"George Evans is on a mission. He's out to make us feel, or worse, think that we're twenty again. Along with Andre, George M, Dave, Greg, Steve, Art, And Kevin, Moodswing touches us in places that have been long unattended to, musically.

This cd aims for the heart, the groin, the soul, and the memory bank without a single apology. He sings (occasionally relying on his dark vibrato which surfaces unexpectedly on the right low note at exactly the right part of the syllable being sung) songs mostly forgotten by the boomers, or relatively unknown to the x-generation, with a gorgeous respect for the lyric, as well as for the lyricist.

(In the 60's I personally wrote 4 dozen songs with Harold Arlen and almost every session began with Harold noodling his favorite song on the piano - Fun To Be Fooled. I'm sorry he didn't live to hear this cd.)

Years ago, in a world inhabited by 3 cent stamps, 2 dollar double features, Coke that didn't say "classic" on the can, and infrequent camera-cuts (among other things), when Nostalgia was just a word in the Roget, as opposed to a way of life, George's roots were planted. The tree is this album.

So light a candle - not a joint - pour a couple of glasses of old Beaujolais, put on a pair of pyjamas that don't have a logo on the butt, shut call-coming, call-waiting, call-hounding, and invite a deserving non-talkative friend over to shut up, and then without wearing headphones, listen to this 50 minute treat

Then in the words of Ira Gershwin (who?) - Do It Again."

Martin Charnin 1997

Mood Swing

Mood Swing,George Evans,Original Cast

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