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Sting has soul. Sting has a powerful presence and a powerful, cutting voice. But he’s nothing special by himself. He’s just like Allison Krauss – you would probably be disappointed in his songs and his singing without the production. Included in the list of disappointing material (after production is subtracted from the mix) is his song, “My Ain True Love…” Understand that my opinion of the recording of the tune with Allison Krauss is unbelievable and painfully beautiful. But it isn’t the tune that makes me want to cry – it’s the mix. It is the raw, droned instruments (keyboards there in the background?), and the shatteringly pure tone of her voice with that golden reverb that they slather her with.
Aside: (And what is very interesting is that Allison Krauss’ voice really isn’t that unbelievable in the recording of “Go to Sleep You Little Baby” – because it doesn’t have the massive production that her most heart-wrenching material has.)
Sting’s song, despite the fact that the melody isn’t really the kind of tune that would, or could, come easily out of the mouth of an Appalachian ballad singer – the words are really solid – except for the passage in the third verse:
Asleep inside the cannon’s mouth,
The captain cries, “Here comes the rout,”
They’ll seek to find me north and south,
I’ve gone to find my ain true love.
It could be that I have misheard his lyrics – but I don’t understand whether it is a woman who is singing this song or a man – and I don’t understand how one can fall asleep inside a cannon – unless he means that they are about to be attacked – but I don’t think that such a metaphor fits with the rest of the tune…
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