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Franks explained to Parade magazine the album was "written about my own personal spiritual journey" and "[it's] about love, our connection to nature, and the beauty and mystery of it all.” [3] The album features one of the last recorded guitar solos by Chuck Loeb [ 4 ] [ 5 ] before his death.
Michael Franks (born September 18, 1944) is an American singer and songwriter, considered a leader of the quiet storm movement. He has recorded with a variety of well-known artists, such as Patti Austin , Art Garfunkel , Brenda Russell , Claus Ogerman , Joe Sample , and David Sanborn .
The Best of Michael Franks: A Backward Glance is a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks released in 1998 with Warner Bros. [1] It is Franks' sixteenth album, and his second compilation after his import-only Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks released a decade prior.
Michael Franks: Original Album Series is a music box set by jazz musician Michael Franks, first released in 2010 in the United Kingdom as part of Rhino's Original Album Series. [1] It includes five of his earlier studio albums [ 2 ] in cardboard sleeves, [ 3 ] from The Art of Tea (1976) to One Bad Habit (1980).
Writing for AllMusic, Stephen J. Matteo praised Franks' "return to form and his best album since 1979's Tiger in the Rain", commenting that "[t]he album marked a total rebirth for Franks." He described the album as "[m]editative, lush and clearly the work of an artist intent on making personal music regardless of trends or airplay, Blue Pacific ...
The Dream 1973–2011 is a jazz vocal boxed set album by Michael Franks, released in 2012 with Warner Music France. [1]The compilation includes 72 tracks over five discs with recordings spanning Franks' career with Warner Bros and earlier, from Michael Franks (re-released as Previously Unavailable) in 1973 (), to Time Together 2011 ().
Tickets for Michael Franks at Music Hall start at $59 and can be found at musichall.org. *Ford Auditorium was built on the Detroit riverfront in 1955 and demolished in 2011.
Watching the Snow is a jazz album by the American singer Michael Franks. It was released in Japan by Columbia Records in 2003, in the U.S. by Sleeping Gypsy in 2004, and again in the U.S. by Koch Records. [1] Watching the Snow was Franks' first Christmas album. Rather than covering other holiday music standards, he wrote all the songs.