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Love To Live |  | Artist: The Living Sisters
Label: VANGUARD
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $9.49
as of 9/4/2010 23:27 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 7932
Genre: rock-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 2276 Minutes
ASIN: B003BB7YTU
Publication Date: March 30, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Great summer music July 9, 2010
billpayer
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This CD reminds me of past summers many years ago when the music defined the summer.
Songs by the Beach Boys, the Drifters, and (fill in your favorite) made things right.
These girls own this summer for me. Great music!
Living Sisters re-live the harmonies we loved May 27, 2010
R. Gould (Boulder, CO, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I heard the Living Sisters interviewed on Public Radio and ordered their "Love to Live" within a day. Their well-rehearsed close-harmony singing is so nostalgic! And so well done. It does my musical ear a favor to realize that there are musicians making this kind of "tight harmony" music again. I strongly recommend their CD.
Ron
Awesome! August 6, 2010
J. W. Coleman (Port Orchard, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have found that you can't really go wrong with ANYTHING Inara George is involved with, and this is yet another stunning example. There is plenty of talent to go around here, and each of the three compliment one another in rich harmonies and soft tempos ... Can't get enough of it!
 Not the Roches, but they'll have to do for now. April 12, 2010
Larry D (Los Angeles, CA United States)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
It's been three years since my favorite living three-part-harmony sister act, The (incomparable) Roches, released their most recent album, the lush and shimmering "Moonswept"; and while I enjoyed the not-really-related Puccini Sisters for a little while, their basic gimmick (rock-era songs arranged for The Andrews Sisters) quickly wore on me. I was very much in need of a harmony fix when I happened upon "Love to Live", the debut collection by The (also-not-really-related) Living Sisters. Neither as transcendent as The Roches nor as nudge-wink cute as The Puccinis, this alt-folk supergroup (apparently Inara George, Becky Stark and Eleni Mandell are all indie goddesses, but I'd never heard of them before) reminds me most of another not-really-related sister act, The Chenille Sisters. Which is not a bad thing, by any means.
There's a mid-tempo sameness to the songs, whether original (the Suzzy Roche-ish "How Are You Doing") or cover (the Bessie Smith blues, "Good Old Wagon", Nancy Wilson's early-60s pop hit, "How Glad I Am"), which, along with the Sisters' all-but-identical pretty-but-edgeless soprano voices, makes "Love to Live" a bit sleepy. I've played it as dinner party background music; and while no one asked that I turn it off, neither did anyone ask who was singing.
After three listens, I'm still enjoying this music. But in all candor, at least one of the four stars is just because I'm glad these young ladies recorded "Love to Live" at all. At a time when I find myself complaining (often and loudly) that Country music is the last bastion of real singing (as opposed to rap and AutoTune) and real songs (as opposed to "jams" and, again, raps) in American pop music, "Love to Live" is a collection of nice songs, sung nicely. In "You Make Me Blue", they actually sing "shoo-wop doo-wop", just like in "I Only Have Eyes For You" by the Flamingos. That's cause for celebration in itself. "Love to Love" isn't quite an antidote for all that makes me cringe in current music; but it's a soothing salve.
great voices June 24, 2010
Anne M. Pontuso (Charlottesville, Virginia United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
These women have harmony down. I find this album easy to listen to, fairly upbeat,and the voices soothing. I heard about them on NPR, otherwise I never would have found them.
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