Audio CD review:
David Wilcox, Nance Pettit - Out Beyond Ideas

David Wilcox, Nance Pettit - Out Beyond Ideas

Band: David Wilcox, Nance Pettit Title: Out Beyond Ideas Rating: Release Date: 27 September, 2005 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: How Did the Rose Ever Open 2: The Breeze at Dawn 3: Slicing Potatoes 4: On A Day When the Wind Is Perfect 5: Absolutely Clear 6: No One Knows His Name 7: Some Seeds 8: Farsi Intro 9: Out Beyond Ideas 10: You Who Knew Me 11: Elephant Story 12: Midnight 13: This We Have Now 14: Trembling With Joy 15: Shell Trick 16: Three Things 17: Awake My Dear

Customer Reviews Don't buy if you are a fan of David Wilcox !!! I love his songs, voice, guitar, timing and the emotion he can put into his voice. I saw David in concert a couple of month's ago, and was hooked. I am neither personally religious or spiritual, but I can appreciate music that is, and I thought that David's style would meld beautifully with the songs. Unfortunately this album is more of a vehicle for David's wifes' voice than his, and so I was sorely disappointed. David is very much the background singer. Nancy's voice is O. K. but not anything special and not what I wanted to listen too. Very disappointing CD. So, if you want to hear David Wilcox sing, pick a different CD. Pop Folk Goes All Rumi on Us Lacking the religous imperialism common to western spiritual music, and free of the nerve racking sound of eastern spiritual music, "Out Beyond Ideas" is able to present mystical poetry in a very musical and accessible way. This is a beautiful CD on many levels. You can learn all the words and sing along as you drive down the highway. Very uplifting. Call it the "Abbey Road" of spiritual music. My only complaint has to do with the mixing. At times (not always) Mr. Wilcox's voice is mixed at the same tone and volume as the music, the result is a muddying of the vocals. This only happens here and there, for the most part, the sound is good, but it could've been a little better. Take half a star off for that and you have a solid 4. 5 star CD. Hopefully we'll see more CD's of this pop folk meets Rumi type, if they keep making them, I'll keep buying 'em! Highly recommended. . You can see a complete list of all David Wilcox, Nance Pettit discography, or go back to the David Wilcox, Nance Pettit tabs