Beth Nielsen Chapman - The Mighty Sky - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Andrés Segovia - His Contemporaries 6 [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/16/1999

On Beth Nielsen Chapman's new , InchUncoveredInch she rolls out a batch of premium songs she's written but never recorded that have already been hits or covers by other artists. Most were top ten hits, seven of which topped the charts at #1.This record could have been called InchRecoveredInch except that the idea for this collection sprung out of her digging up songs for her pending boxed set called InchBox of SongsInch. The title, InchUncoveredInch was suggested by none other than Bob Harris. InchOnce I heard that name I knew exactly what this record needed to be.Inch It's been a crazy few months pulling it together but the universe seems to have been cooperating beautifully.Recorded in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and her own InchTree HouseInch studio in Nashville, Beth Nielsen Chapman's new InchUncoveredInch bursts open with a crystalline piano, which gives way into an infectious groove on InchSimple ThingsInch, a song about the stuff that really matters in life, with backing vocals by Kim Carnes (She's Got Betty Davis Eyes).

If 2022's album, Weather Alive, lived underwater, suspended, spectral, and dreamlike, The Ground Above marks a resurfacing. It is Beth's most direct and unapologetic music to date; profoundly urgent, embodied, and powered by a new found strength. Where the previous record unfolded in a post-ictal, time-out-of-time dreamscape, The Ground Above finds Orton firmly back on land, taking a giant intake of air. It documents survival, integration, renewal, and acceptance without resignation.