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Product Identifiers
Record LabelCD Baby, Cdb
UPC0186850000022
eBay Product ID (ePID)14046050320
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2006
GenreCast Recordings
ArtistSundown
Release TitleOriginal Studio Cast
Dimensions
Item Weight0.22 lb
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks18
Number of Discs1
TracksArizona Morning, We Ain't Never Had It So Good, Back in Business, Fly in the Ointment, Politickin', The Rest of My Life, One More Drink, Prodigal Son, Men Ain't What They Used to Be, Bridges, Sundown, Entr'acte/Back in Business-Reprise/Stage from Phoenix, You Ain't No Prisoner, Wait, Another Time, Poison Water, Prelude to a Gunfight, Another Time-Reprise
NotesRAVES FOR SUNDOWN! 'I found the biggest surprise of the year, theatrical recording-wise at least, while listening to the recently released recording of Sundown while Stairmastering at Harlem's New York Sports Club. Although not the best place to listen to a musical about the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the fact that it's country music-inspired score cut through the hip-hop blaring overhead and completely captivated me should speak volumes to the strength of the score and it's performers. 'Written by composer Peter Link (King of Hearts, Salvation) and lyricist Larry Rosler (who, with Joe Bravaco, also wrote the book), the show is more tuneful and emotionally resonant than many shows to hit the Great White Way in recent memory. 'The show has seen a few productions already (the Lyric Stage in Irving, Texas, and Virginia's Barter, as well as a staged reading at New York's York Theatre Company), and the recording is a studio cast recording featuring Broadway actors Steve Blanchard (currently the Beast in Beauty and the Beast) as Doc Holliday, Judy McLane (currently Tanya in Mamma Mia!) as his lady love Kate Fisher, and Patrick Ryan Sullivan as Wyatt Earp. 'The show manages what other Western shows tried and almost achieved (such as Johnny Guitar) or flat-out failed miserably at (such as Urban Cowboy) and that is, to tell a tuneful tale set in the mythic west that consists of three-dimensional characters that have a reason to sing - and do so with more than passable songs to boot! (Indeed, the sensual pick-up number 'One More Drink' sung by Joe Lutton and Judy McLane perfectly captures the spirit and playfulness that was missing from Urban Cowboy.) 'Musically, Sundown recalls a harder edged Big River, thanks to rollicking character numbers like 'Fly In The Ointment' and 'Politickin',' which stand side by side with beautiful ballads like 'Bridges' (beautifully performed by Judy McLane) and the title song (a plaintive 'end of the trail' number sung by Doc Holliday). While the CD is hampered at times by arrangements featuring far-too-obviously synthesized instruments, the material in general and the performers in particular make for an incredibly strong and highly listenable album.' - JONATHAN FRANK, SOUND ADVICE@ TALKING BROADWAY "Sundown takes it's audience back to the Wild West as it retells the story of the Doc Holliday and the Tombstone showdown between Holliday, the Earps and the Clantons. This musical (here heard in a studio recording) approaches it's subject with a musical earnestness that can't help but affect the listeners. "Peter Link has written a score that mixes to beautiful effect country-western strains with a pop sensibility and even soaring melodic lines reminiscent of opera. Larry Rosler provides lyrics that rhyme cleverly and illustrate character succinctly. The book for the piece comes from Joe Bravaco and Larry Rosler and can only be truly commented on by audiences who have seen the piece in it's two productions, at Lyric Stage in Texas and the Barter Theatre in Virginia. "What listeners will comment on is the richness and effectiveness of the score.. From the moment strings and synthesizers sound in the elegiac opening number, 'Arizona Morning', Sundown transports the listener back some 120 years and to the plains and vastness of an unconquered west. "In 'Fly in the Ointment', Link creates an intricately ominous number for the Clantons, McLauries and Earps, where banjos seem to be propelling the characters to their final gunfight. In 'Politickin', Rosler creates some of his most comic lyrics as Holliday and Virgil Earp urge Wyatt to take a more gentle approach to the problems in Tombstone. 'Bridges' demonstrates the two writers at their most lyrical as Kate, Holliday's romantic interest, looks back on the journey that's brought her to Tombstone. For the show's title number, Link has written an ethereal piece that interestingly and effectively blends country western sounds with the leisurely cadenc
