Michael Feinstein - Gershwin Country (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Craft Recordings is thrilled to release Gershwin Country: a brand-new album from the GRAMMY®- and Emmy®-nominated entertainer Michael Feinstein, who reimagines the classic songs of George and Ira Gershwin through the contemporary lens of country music. Executive produced by his longtime friend and collaborator Liza Minnelli, the album pairs Feinstein with some of the biggest names in country music, including Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley and Rosanne Cash.

George Gershwin (1898–1937) not only composed some of the 20th century’s most important orchestral works ("Rhapsody in Blue", "An American in Paris"), he also wrote the groundbreaking English-language opera Porgy & Bess (including the hit “Summertime”), before finding great success in popular music, collaborating with his brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896–1983). Embarking on his career as a teenager on New York’s famed Tin Pan Alley, George parlayed his work into Broadway at the turn of the 1920s. Within a few years, he began his fruitful creative partnership with Ira. Together, the brothers would go on to write some of the most influential songs of the era—forever changing the landscape of American musical theater. In 1924, the brothers collaborated on the stage musical comedy Lady Be Good (“Fascinating Rhythm” and “Oh, Lady Be Good!”), before following with Oh, Kay!, Funny Face (1927) and Strike Up the Band (1927). Later, with the rise of musical films, the Gershwins brought their talents to Hollywood—writing more than two dozen scores for the stage and screen before George’s untimely death at 38.

The brothers’ vast catalog of music, however, continued to live on through the decades—recorded over and over again by the world’s most respected artists. In Feinstein’s liner notes, he writes, “It is the reinvention of those songs that has given them the wings to fly through the changing times of the century, and travel onward through the years, eternally seducing new generations with their echoes of the Jazz Age expressed through his encoded DNA.”

TRACKLIST

01. Michael Feinstein - Love Is Here To Stay
02. Michael Feinstein - I've Got A Crush On You
03. Michael Feinstein - Someone To Watch Over Me
04. Michael Feinstein - I Got Rhythm
05. Michael Feinstein - They Can't Take That Away From Me
06. Michael Feinstein - Clap Yo' Hands
07. Michael Feinstein - How Long Has This Been Going On?
08. Michael Feinstein - Fascinating Rhythm
09. Michael Feinstein - Soon
10. Michael Feinstein - Oh! Lady Be Good
11. Michael Feinstein - Embraceable You



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