Author: Gray, David

Format: Best of

Release Date: 01-05-2007

Details: Product Description EMI are excited to release the brand new Best of album from the stunning David Gray, Shine: The Best of The Early Years. It's the first ever best-of from the multi platinum artist highlighting the breakthrough songs that set the stage for his huge climb to fame. Features the finest songs from David Gray's first three albums "A Century Ends", "Flesh" & "Sell, Sell, Sell". This newly released `Early Year's collection brings together Gray's classic early songs for the first time. They include songs that have become set favourites at his concerts, including 'Shine', 'Everytime', 'Faster Sooner Now' and 'Late Night Radio'. Amazon.ca This is not the first collection of David Gray's "pre-success" recordings, but it is the best one. Unlike many such collections of early works by noted artists, you're not seeing the artist's abilities in their infant state--each of these 15 songs is already great. The Mancunian musician's performing abilities were well developed by the time he first recorded in the early '90s; one might even argue that they sound best in the often stripped-down, more raw state on display here. The songs themselves, however, have definitely matured since Gray hit the alt-adult-contemporary big time with the electronica-tinged White Ladder in 2000; such songs as "Wisdom" and "Birds Without Wings" do show the marks of other singer-songers (notably Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan). These days, of course, David Gray is himself often used as an adjective, to describe all the other scruffy-bearded blue-eyed songsters reaching for the sensitive crooner's crown. --Mike McGonigal

UPC: 094638847922

EAN: 0094638847922

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New