Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Betty Buckley will introduce her powerful new live double album Story Songs from Palmetto Records today, Friday, April 7. The recording is being released on the heels of her most recent success in M. Night Shyamalan's newest film Split (the #1 Movie in America and an International Box Office hit) in which she co-stars opposite James McAvoy.
The celebrated interpreter presents an adventurous collection with music from all genres, from theatre to folk to Top 40. Story Songs features a quartet of musicians including the renowned multi- Grammy-nominated Jazz Pianist
Christian Jacob, Buckley's long-term Pianist, Arranger and Music Director, and Jazz Guitarist Oz Noy.
When Story Songs debuted at
Joe's Pub last fall, The New York Times praised it as her "stunning new show, arguably the strongest of her career. Ms
Buckley gave everything she sang the shape and depth of a personal confession." When she took the program to the Bay Area later in the season, she was called "a vocal wonder" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Disc 1
You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
from South Pacific
Music by
Richard Rodgers and lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II
Cassandra
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
High & Dry
Music and lyrics by Radiohead
Chanson
from The Baker's Wife
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz
All Things In Time
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Old Flame
Music and lyrics by
Joe Iconis
Another Life
from
The Bridges of Madison County
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Prayer in Open D
Music and lyrics by
Emmylou Harris
September Song
from Knickerbocker Holiday
Music by
Kurt Weill and lyrics by
Maxwell Anderson
Don't Give Up
Music and lyrics by Peter Gabriel
Throw It Away
Music and lyrics by Abbey Lincoln
Disc 2
How Long Has This Been Going On? Piano solo
Music by
George Gershwin and lyrics by
Ira Gershwin
Practical Arrangement
Music and lyrics by Sting
Stephen Bruton Story
Too Many Memories
Music and lyrics by Stephen Bruton
Bird on A Wire
Music and lyrics by
Leonard Cohen
Howard DiSilva Story
Both Sides Now
Music and lyrics by
Joni Mitchell
Elaine Stritch Story
I'm Still Here
from Follies
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim