Red Eye Tonight
Mary Barry is a hard artist to peg down. With a sound rooted in jazz and blues, but nevertheless drawing on a host of European and South American influences, a Mary Barry CD is often as much a trip around the world, as it is a map of the human heart and soul. Her latest CD Red Eye Tonight is no exception.
Building upon her multi-influenced style, Red Eye Tonight has an improvisational sound, featuring all new instrumentation with the flugelhorn, trumpet, flute and vibraphone colouring the arrangements. With a mélange of rhythms from bossa nova, to swing, to a Terre-Neuvienne/Portuguese type waltz with piano accordion and percussion, Red Eye Tonight is a true expression of Mary Barry's multi-cultural sensibilities.
Red Eye Tonight is a collection of ten original compositions, plus one co-written with Deborah Caldwell and Dawna Major entitled I Know I Should Run. Additionally, Mary has, for the first time on any of her CD's, recorded two cover tracks: Ed Kavanagh's bluesy ballad Still Life With The Blues and Marie Lili Cauchon's La Fille De La Mer.
The songs cover a range of themes from love (Twilight Magic and Brasse Partout), and loss (So Long, You're The One), to technological isolation (Hurricane Charley). Among the thirteen tracks is a special tribute song to little-known songwriter Laura Nyro, whose songs were recorded by dozens of artists all over the world.
Red Eye Tonight is the CD Mary Barry fans have been waiting for. The recording features an all star team made up of Brian Way, Bill Brennan, Patrick Boyle, Rick Hollett, Mark Peddle, Gary Tilley, Gary Davis, Paddy Barry and Andrew Dale. From its multi-cultural influences, to its staggering range and breadth of subject and song, Red Eye Tonight stirs the soul, as easily as it defies simple categorization. This is Mary Barry at her finest.
Victoria Times Colonist
"...evocative narratives deliciously married to moody soundscapes...a very original , eclectic sound."
Linear Reflections
"Wow! This disc blew me away right off the bat! Mary Barry delivers a sweet sound like a consummate New York jazz performer ... with an expressive voice that flows over you, so sultry and passionate, the music enfolding and gripping you with a velvet covered touch. Barry is that good of a writer, her music fits in wonderfully, carrying on the timeless quality of excellent jazz."
Liner Notes
- Produced by:
- Rick Hollett and Brian Way
- Engineered by:
- Kevin Pinhorn
- Arranged by:
- Brian Way
- Mastered by:
- Ted Carson at Music Lane, Toronto
Musicians
- Mary Barry
- voice, compositions
- Brian Way
- piano
- Rick Hollett
- saxophone, flute
- Patrick Boyle
- flugelhorn, trumpet
- Bill Brennan
- vibes, percussion
- Gary Davis
- guitar
- Mark Peddle
- acoustic, electric bass
- Gary Tilley
- drums
- Paddy Barry
- background vocals
- Andrew Dale
- background vocals
Song List & Selected Lyrics
- Red Eye Tonight
Leaving is never easy
But clinging to a love that's gone
Is so crazy
Now I'm packing up the past
And I'm sending it Express
No signature required
'Cause it's a permanent address
I'm going home
I'm coming home
I'm leaving alone
On the red eye tonight
Changing is never easy
But waiting for a love to return
Is just crazy
Now I'm giving up the ghost
My apartment is for rent (and)
I'm heading for the other coast
Before my life is spent
I'm going home
I'm coming home
I'm leaving alone
On the red eye tonight
Repeat Second Verse
I'm going home
I'm coming home
I'm leaving alone
On the red eye tonight
On the red eye tonight
On the red eye tonight
On the red eye tonight
© Mary Barry/SOCAN/Aurora Music
- Hurricane Charley
- Lyrics not available
- I Know I Should Run
Lyrics not available
- So Long
I wake up alone
To the sound of you gone
I feel so tired of crying
I'm dying here by the phone
They say silence is golden
But gold fades to gray
When each passing moment's
As long as a day
Though our love went wrong
I don't want to be saying so longSeems like forever
Since you said goodbye
God knows I can't eat, I can't sleep
I feel like I'm buried alive
And now that it's over
The future's been sold
My bed is too empty
The sheets are so cold
Though our love went wrong
I don't want to be saying so longAnd now that it's over
The future's been sold
My bed is too empty
The sheets are so cold
Though our love went wrong
I don't want to be saying so long
Though our love went wrong
I don't want to be saying so long'Bye bye,
So long© Mary Barry/SOCAN/Aurora Music
- Brasse Partout
Lyrics not available
- Laura Nyro Passed Away Today
- Lyrics not available
- So Shy
Lyrics not available
- Still Life with the Blues
- Lyrics not available
- Twilight Magic
Morning comes, I wake up soft
Summer's breath sighs in the sun
I reach for you never knowing why
We have to runBut evening is yours and mine
The dance is slow
Let's take the time
Twilight magic turns on my soul
Twinkles in the night
Into the dawnLove me I'm too shy to love you
Hold me and I'll grow around you
Love me I'm too shy to love you
Hold me and I'll grow aroundSwept away, and buried in your breath
Melt away, your touch is tenderness
Twilight magic turns on my soul
Twinkles in the night
Twinkles in the dawnThis time I can feel it grow
On intoxicate me, Baby
With your gentle glow
Twilight magic turns on my soul
Twinkles in the night
Into the dawnLove me I'm too shy to love you
Hold me and I'll grow around you
Love me I'm too shy to love you
Hold me and I'll grow aroundLove me I'm too shy to love you
Hold me and I'll grow around you
Love me I'm too shy to love you
Hold me and I'll grow around© Mary Barry/SOCAN/Aurora Music
- Nothing More to Say
Lyrics not available
- All I Need
Lyrics not available
- La Fille de la Mer
Lyrics not available
- You're the One
Lyrics not available