Glad Rag Doll (album)

Glad Rag Doll
Studio album by Diana Krall
Released October 2, 2012 (2012-10-02)
Studio Avatar Studios (New York)
The Village (West Los Angeles)
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 58:00
Label Verve
Producer Diana Krall, T-Bone Burnett
Diana Krall chronology
Quiet Nights
(2009)Quiet Nights2009		 Glad Rag Doll
(2012)		 Wallflower
(2015)Wallflower2015
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic76/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
American Songwriter[3]
Bass Musician[4]
Christianity Today[5]
Daily Express[6]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[7]
Montreal Gazette[8]
The New Zealand Herald[9]
PopMatters8/10[10]

Glad Rag Doll is the 11th studio album by Canadian jazz singer-songwriter and pianist Diana Krall, released on October 2, 2012 by Verve Records. The album was produced by T-Bone Burnett,[11] and it covers mainly jazz tunes from the 1920s and 1930s, mostly from Krall's father's collection of 78-rpm records.[2][12]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 12 critic reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Peter Goddard of Toronto Star wrote "Glad Rag Doll is choc-a-block with utterly unlistenable moments, murky production and heavy-handed playing, notably from drummer Jay Bellerose who approaches everything as if it were a march. This supposedly "old time" heavy-on-the beat approach totally messes with Krall’s singing. What Glad Rag Doll might have sounded like is given away by its four "bonus tracks," each produced by Krall accompanying herself on piano".[13]

Brendon Veevers of Renowned for Sound mentioned "Upon first glance of the new record it would appear that Krall has taken a ‘sex sells’ approach to marketing as we are presented with a scantily clad songbird draped over red velvet in all but some rather revealing black lingerie however, don’t judge a CD buy its sleeve as the contents within are anything but sex driven. Although a covers collection Glad Rag Doll reveals itself to be, over a running time of just shy of an hour, a record that could easily be one of Krall’s best work to date".[14]

Christopher Loudon of JazzTimes noted "Though her voice seems to have grown a shade more tenuous since 2009’s Quiet Nights, she remains one of the most compelling balladeers around. Indeed, her slightly heightened fragility only adds to the tranquil beauty of "Prairie Lullaby," the redemptive ache of "Let It Rain," the hollowness of Doc Pomus’ brilliantly atmospheric "Lonely Avenue" (one of two tracks of more recent vintage) and the road-weariness of "Wide River to Cross" (also newer). And Krall is masterful in her interpretations of the delicately contemplative title track (explored solely with Ribot, who is equally transfixing) and the melodramatic playlet "Here Lies Love," with its marvelous faux-dirge propulsion".[15]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, selling 46,000 copies in its first week.[16] It had sold 191,000 copies in the US by February 2015.[17]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye"Harry M. Woods3:07
2."There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears"Fred Fisher4:29
3."Just Like a Butterfly That's Caught in the Rain"Mort Dixon, Harry M. Woods3:43
4."You Know – I Know Ev'rything's Made for Love"Howard E. Johnson, Al Sherman, Charles Tobias3:47
5."Glad Rag Doll"Milton Ager, Dan Dougherty, Jack Yellen4:34
6."I'm a Little Mixed Up"Betty James, Edward Johnson4:36
7."Prairie Lullaby"Billy Hill4:22
8."Here Lies Love"Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin5:08
9."I Used to Love You But It's All Over Now"Lew Brown, Albert Von Tilzer2:50
10."Let It Rain"Hal Dyson, James Kendis5:44
11."Lonely Avenue"Doc Pomus6:57
12."Wide River to Cross"Julie Miller, Steven P. Miller3:51
13."When the Curtain Comes Down"Carl Hoefle, Al Lewis, Al Sherman4:52
Deluxe edition bonus tracks[18]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."As Long as I Love"Milton Drake, George Jessel, Ben Oakland2:29
15."Glad Rag Doll" (Alternate Version)Ager, Dougherty, Yellen2:54
16."Garden in the Rain"Carroll Gibbons, James Dyrenforth2:55
17."There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears" (Alternate Version)Fisher2:06

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification
Canada[53] Gold
France[54] Gold
Hungary[55] Gold
Poland[56] Gold

References

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