Martha Wainwright

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Already an accomplished poet and novelist before he ambled into the music business in his mid-'30s, Leonard Cohen has remained as musically influential as he is publicly enigmatic for four decades. This celebration of Cohen's songbook began as a free concert that quickly mushroom...	I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too Martha is the youngest of the Wainwright clan (with brother Rufus two years her senior), and she's also still the one with the most to prove, even after her eponymous 2005 debut captured hearts aplenty via a delightful bundle of timeless folk ruminations with intriguingly fraught...	I Will Internalize	I Am a Bird Now It's not often that an album released in January gets called one of the best of the year in near-unison, but the second full length by Antony and the Johnsons is so startlingly beautiful that it simply has to be. Like his friend and compatriot Devendra Banhart, Antony is a super...	Release the Stars Recorded in Berlin and executive produced by the Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant, Rufus Wainwright's fifth album offers an ounce of restraint from the man that dressed up as Sir Lancelot's crossed girlfriend Lady Shallott on the cover of his last. Well, not really. Having fallen in l...
Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen--songwriter, poet, former monk, ladies man, and sharp dresser--receives a near-hagiographical treatment in I'm Your Man, a part concert-part documentary in which his work is interpreted by an array of singers. Cohen tributes are nothing new, what with Jennifer Warne...	Rufus Wainwright The singer/songwriters working today who point to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway musicals as central inspirations can be counted on an index finger. Rufus Wainwright is quite an anomaly--but, then again, he's the son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. Wainwright has been c...	All I Intended to Be Emmylou Harris has always had a way with woe. On All I Intended To Be, she seems more maudlin than ever as she sings her way through songs about loss, heartbreak, even the odd funeral. Of course, this is the kind of material Harris has always been comfortable with, but as her car...	Separate Ways Biological determinists who find a poster boy in this 30-year-old singer/songwriter will miss just what's exceptional about the talent emerging on his second album. Certainly if your father were Richard Thompson, you'd have him play guitar on your record too. The son, however, ha...	Essential Leonard Cohen This two-disc retrospective traces the Canadian bard's musical maturity from poet and novelist who sang a little to multidimensional artist whose oracular vocals and increasingly rich arrangements are every bit as compelling as his verse. Even when Cohen came to prominence throug...

Amazing music, an absolute MUST - Martha's 1st!-THE BEST
This is the kind of recording I like to sit, and listen to intently. The poetry of the lyrics and music swarm around, and it's very stony music indeed. All I can say is, I'm not going to critique specifics, and simply say this is an amazing trip. The CD really gets to me. I cannot listen to it intently and not lose a tear or two. The lyrics are sung so heart felt. Martha is so vulnerable, so feminine, so honest. To hear her is to love her. Not to mention that everyone else in her family puts out amazing music as well, you have a lot of new stuff to explore if you've never listened to Martha, Rufus, or their dad Loudon Wainwright. Their mom and aunt are the McGarrigle sisters. So Martha grew up surrounded by musicians and song, and this is her first solo effort, which is in my opinion far greater, unusual, personal, and moving than any other release in their whole family, and far outside of it. You go girl! Bring your own hanky, it will test you. If you have any human soul at all, this recording will kick your butt. It's somewhere around Stevie Nicks/Bernadette Peters/Dolly Parton meets Kate Bush and Pink Floyd. Ahhh, that doesn't help at all, just get it and listen over and over to the little girl breaking out song of the century: BMFA!!!

Great voice, great music
When I heard this CD for the first time I was really impressed. Lyrics and music are perfectly matched. That's one of best female voices I've ever heard!!!

Beautiful Album
Every song on this album is just absloutley beautiful. It's a folk-rock album...kind of in a way, it's so many things rolled into one, it's just a beautiful CD that I don't think we'll be seeing anything like anytime soon. It doesn't have a lot of instruments and her voice is in full view, as well as her haunting lyrics. With lyrics such as the ones on 'This Life': 'I got the gun for my head/Wounds the brain,free instead', or those on 'Who Was I Kidding': 'Met the pain before dawn/Should never thought it would or could be easy/Been inclined to carry on/Hold my hard head and watch you walk out on me/See the tears they fall down on my hard head/Forevermore'. Her lyrics are just great, her music is beautiful. I could go on and on. I'm just telling you that you should definitley buy this awesome album!

Amazing!
Her voice, her lyrics, her style, her talent are astounding! She's tough but feminine at the same time and I really relate to that. I just adore her and this cd. She has her own unique sound that really shines among all singer songwriters today. My favorite song is Bloody MF'ing A'hole. Factory is great too. All her songs are great and I look forward to owning everything this woman makes. I don't want to build her up too much, I am content just keeping her all to myself! Although with a talent such as hers, there is NO WAY she'll remain an opening act. She's just getting started and she is going to be HUGE!

Husband and wife differences.
I really enjoyed this CD but my husband does not like it at all. She reminds me of Dory Previn.