New album track listing (updated)

[Nikolaj]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

The fact that Dave is utilizing today's modes of direct communication is something we should respect. This is the new form of marketing and he's doing it for the benefit of Stevie. She, herself (0r her management) would probably would never even think of interfacing with fans in this direct manner.

Dave is Stevie's champion -- he respects her talent, has shown her a different way to work, and has inspired her. Really, what more can we ask for? Until I have the CD in my hands and on my stereo, I have nothing else to say about it.

I agree with those well-thought and well-stated points, but I wonder if he really has 'shown her a different way to work'- I know that he said it, I know that she said it. I think the cd is going to be brilliant, it's been my gut feeling since hearing how quickly they'd recorded it, that was different. But this delay 'til March (?) 2o11 is unconscionable. A single could have been ready by late summer and the full cd could have been released by October. SN chose to wait, wanted to wait. Her call, absolutely. But now they've been tinkering with it for months, with months more to go before the release. A successful completion of 'an entirely new way to record an album' would have been for the cd to have been released quickly and not toil in post-production. It's about the songs, which are said to be great.
All the time that will have passed since their initial burst of creative energy until the cd finally drops dilutes the spontaneous synergy they achieved.
Having the music go through many months of mixing, post production and rethinking before it's released is exactly the same way she's worked for many years.
I would have liked to have seen confidence and a little boldness in just getting the cd out as quickly as it was recorded. Elton & Leon did it.