Wishing Street
© Copyright-EyeSee Music/Ian Charles
(660355408922)
Record Label: EyeSee Music
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Wishing Street~ Critically Acclaimed Worldwide!
Winner! of the 2001 dmusic.com Grammy Awards for Best Artist and Song...
"Heavens' Key"
Featuring the #1 Mp3.com hits, "Heavens'Key", and "La La La La(a true story)".
Voted "One of Hudson Valley New York's Best New Artists for 2000 - Chronogram Magazine.
2001- Voted Best Performer Woodstock Times
2000-2001 Solo Acoustic Tour...380 shows nationwide.
2002~03 Fall 2003 tour, 2004 NEW CD release, MINUTES FROM MIDNIGHT! Available here: www.cdbaby.com/charles5
A member of:
The Americana Music Association 2000-
The Folk Alliance
ASCAP
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WISHING STREET- is Ian Charles' 3rd CD release since 1995.
The songs are about Experiences, Observations.
The People, Places, Dreams, and Emotions.
The Factual, Fictional, Spiritual, and Musical.
Seen through the eyes of a wide array of characters; A Street Musician, A Factory worker, A Drifter, and You.
The characters are real people.
The music is laid back. Call it, "Country Soul"!
Acoustic and Electric Guitars, A Voice, Upright and Electric Bass, Drums, Piano, B-3 Organ.
Just sit back at home or in your car and let the songs carry you along WISHING STREET.
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Credits: All songs written and arranged by IAN CHARLES
Producer: CRIT HARMON
Studios: Sherwood Forest Recording-Bedford, Ma.
TNA-Wallingford, Ct.
Horizon-West Haven, Ct.
Engineers: CRIT HARMON, RICH ROBINSON, VIC STEFFENS
Mastered : JONATHAN WYNER at M WORKS- Boston, Ma.
Photography: GARRY SEGAL (cover)
DAVID CUNNINGHAM (booklet)
Design: MATT WOJTASZEK
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Musicians:
Guitars:IAN CHARLES, PETE KAZALEH, CRIT HARMON
Organ and Piano: HARRY KING
Slide and Lap Steel Guitar: PETE KAZALEH
*Bass: STEVE COMBS, CRIT HARMON (*Track 7)
*Drums: DENNIS COTE', IAN CHARLES(*Track 7)
Backing Vox: KERRI POWERS
~~~ Thanks for stoppin' by ~~~
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#2 in his best of list
author: Bruce Bennett
This is his 2nd best CD of his catalog so far. The best is minutes from midnight from 2004. He is a smart songwriter with style and good arrangements.
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More up scale/smarter sound than Neil Young, Just as real
author: Thomas M. Burgess
I hear a lot of Neil young in him, but he is more up-scale.
There is a smarter sound to Ian's playing. He's up-to-date.
Just as real.
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Wow, I love this CD more and more and more...
author: Michelle Walker
What a great CD. I was at a friends house and they were playing it. I found myself completely distracted by the melodies, the simple, soft voice and poetic lyrics that felt as though they were taunting me to listen a little harder.
Well, I am.
It's great. I now have this one and his latest which is different from this (less country, more alt-country). But, excellent. Beyond excellent. I recommend him very much.
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Heavens' Key
author: Starpolish
The beginning of “Heaven’s Key” immediately evokes early Rod Stewart ballads like “I Don’t Want to Talk About It,” but the song truly develops its own personality as it goes. Charles’s voice has the right balance of solidity and newness, bringing out the emotion in the lyric and building to a near-perfect crescendo -- which he surprisingly reins in at the end. If the song were mine to play with, I’d want to hear some large Hammond organ chords offset the piano and highlight the elegiac nature of the piece. But working with what is here, I’m impressed with this confessional country-tinged folk ballad, though I hope he gives the MP3 a re-encoding that isn’t quite so brittle.
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