Title: Sad loss of the crystalline voice...
Product review: but the spirit still shines...Who doesn't remember the exquisite quality of Carol's voice in her (and our) youth? That's how I think of her still--her voice encased in amber in my mind--so it was a real shock to detect the raspy and almost hard quality of her voice in much of this album. At first listen, that damage was all I could hear, and it made for some seriously tough going. Glad I white-knuckled it, however, because what's missing from the voice is remedied to quite an extent by the heart of the music and of the singer. They can't do nips and tucks with aging stars' voices the way they can erase signs of age from the rest of the body---and maybe that's not a bad thing. Carol is one 62 year old with a lot of great music to share with us still.
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