Midder Music is releasing a two-CD set of previously unreleased recordings by my old friend Nancy LaMott on February 12. It’s a sequel of sorts to Live at Tavern on the Green, the 2005 album of performances taped at her last nightclub engagement. (I wrote about that CD here.)
Ask Me Again, the new album, will contain twenty tracks, including “Call Me Irresponsible,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Easy to Love,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “The Shadow of Your Smile,” “The Wind Beneath My Wings,” and a Stephen Sondheim medley. I haven’t heard it yet, but I heard Nancy sing most of the songs on Ask Me Again at one time or another, and I have no doubt that you’ll enjoy them now as much as I did then.
In addition to the CD, Midder also plans to release a companion DVD called I’ll Be Here With You: A Collection of Rare Live Performances 1978-1995. Among other things, it will include a version of “Moon River” that Nancy sang on The Charles Grodin Show nine days before her death in 1995.
For more details, go here.
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