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Valve Bone Woe

Valve Bone Woe is the second solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Chrissie Hynde. The album consists entirely of cover versions, and was released on September 6, 2019, by BMG Rights Management.[1][2] The jazz-influenced album features 14 renditions from a wide variety of artists, including Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys, Nick Drake, John Coltrane and more.[3] The album was generally received well by critics.

Valve Bone Woe
Studio album by
Chrissie Hynde
ReleasedSeptember 6, 2019
Recorded2019
Studio
GenreJazz
Length65:55
LabelBMG Rights Management
Producer
Chrissie Hynde chronology
Stockholm
(2014) 		Valve Bone Woe
(2019) 		Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan
(2021)

Background

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The genesis of the album began in 1999 when Chrissie Hynde teamed up with composer and producer Marius de Vries to work on music for the film Eye of the Beholder.[4] Hynde writes in the album's liner notes: "After we'd recorded "I Wish You Love" for the Eye of the Beholder soundtrack I'd often expressed a desire to do more along those lines. What eventually emerged was the idea to do what we refer to as our jazz/dub album."[5][6]

The majority of the album was recorded at London's Air Studios with additional vocals recorded at Sarm Studios in London.[5] Although the album includes two instrumentals: Charles Mingus' "Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters" and John Coltrane's "Naima", Hynde features on wordless background vocals on both tracks.[7]

Album title

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In the album's liner notes, Hynde writes about the album title: "A few years back when I saw an obit in the paper for the valve trombonist, Bob Brookmeyer, I mailed my jazz sax-playing brother, saying "R. I. P. Bob Brookmeyer." Terry, a man of few words, responded with "Valve Bone Woe," a kind of Haiku beatnik prose. I thought that was a perfect title for the album."[5]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [9]
American Songwriter     [7]
The Guardian     [10]
The Independent     [11]
musicOMH     [12]
The Skinny     [13]

Valve Bone Woe received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 77, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 11 reviews.[8]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, writing for AllMusic, wrote, "Most of Valve Bone Woe sways to a soft, gentle beat and is dressed in elegant strings, keyboards, and other jazzy accouterments, but beneath this lush exterior lies some modern flair. Hints of studio trickery are peppered throughout the record, most evident in elongated electronic echoes, and far from seeming out of place, they lend the album a certain sense of hipness."[9] Rich Wilhelm of PopMatters said, "It could be a jazz album, or a mood music album, or a covers album, or a wee-small-hours-of-the-morning album ... These descriptions all work, and yet Valve Bone Woe doesn't fit comfortably into any of those categories ... But with its orchestral ambitions, imaginative song selection, and sometimes unexpected sonic architecture, Valve Bone Woe is a supremely odd journey as well."[14]

The Guardian's Rachel Aroesti wrote that Valve Bone Woe "sees Hynde drown out cliche (and, occasionally, any recognisable tune) with her inbuilt insouciant cool and disregard for anything approaching stuffy tradition. Alongside jazz, she calls on dub, psychedelia and faintly disorientating interludes of electronica to enhance the otherworldliness of her alternative American songbook."[10]

Matt Silver, writing for WRTI, wrote that the tracks not originally composed as jazz tunes are given "something close enough to qualify as jazz treatment, but, as a whole, this is as genre-fluid and idiosyncratic a collection of jazz and pop covers as any in recent memory." Silver felt that Hynde "deserves recognition for an audacious approach to her first jazz album. She takes some bold chances; some land, others don't, and still others may prove to be tastes acquired over time."[15]

Track listing

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Valve Bone Woe track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Original artistLength
1."How Glad I Am"
  • Larry Harrison
  • Jimmy Williams
Nancy Wilson (1964)4:38
2."Caroline, No"
Brian Wilson / The Beach Boys (1966)4:53
3."I'm a Fool to Want You"
Frank Sinatra (1951)5:57
4."I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)"Hoagy CarmichaelRed Norvo / Larry Clinton (1939)2:59
5."Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters"Charles MingusCharles Mingus (1966)3:20
6."Once I Loved"
João Gilberto (1961)4:18
7."Wild Is the Wind"
Johnny Mathis (1957)5:46
8."You Don't Know What Love Is"
Keep 'Em Flying / Carol Bruce (1941)4:49
9."River Man"Nick DrakeNick Drake (1969)4:37
10."Absent Minded Me"
Barbra Streisand (1964)5:51
11."Naima"John ColtraneJohn Coltrane (1960)5:20
12."Hello, Young Lovers"
The King and I (1951)4:29
13."No Return"Ray DaviesThe Kinks (1967)4:17
14."Que reste-t-il de nos amours?"
[n 2]		Lucienne Boyer (1942)4:40
Total length:65:55

Personnel

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Adapted from the album's liner notes.[5]

Musicians
  • Chrissie Hynde – vocals
  • James Walbourne – guitars (all tracks)
  • Liran Donin – bass (except on track 13)
  • David Hartley – piano, Rhodes (except on tracks 7 and 12)
  • Ian Thomas – drums (except on tracks 4, 5, 10, 11 and 13)
  • Eldad Guetta – keyboards, guitars, trumpet, bass, percussion, arrangements
  • Marius de Vries – synthesizer, piano, arrangements
  • Matt Robertson – additional keyboards, programming, additional arrangements
  • Peter Roth – nylon string guitar
  • Marcel Camargo – nylon string guitar (on track 4)
  • Georgi Minassyan – duduk (on track 5)
  • Tal Wilkenfeld – bass (on track 13)
  • Ben de Vries – additional programming
  • with members of the Valve Bone Woe Orchestra (except on track 7)
Technical
  • Marius de Vries – production
  • Eldad Guetta – production
  • Tom Bailey – engineering (Air Studios)
  • Dave McCracken – engineering (Sarm Studios)
  • Jay Marcovitz – digital editing
  • Phil Levine – digital editing
  • Nicholai Baxter – mixing
  • Eric Boulanger – mastering
  • Chrissie Hynde – cover illustration
  • Stuart Crouch Creative – design

Charts

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Chart performance for Valve Bone Woe
Chart (2019) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[21] 188
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[22] 79
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[23] 47
Scottish Albums (OCC)[24] 12
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[25] 57
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[26] 77
UK Albums (OCC)[27] 32
UK Jazz & Blues Albums (OCC)[28] 1
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[29] 19
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard)[30] 2

Notes

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  1. ^ Norman Gimbel is erroneously credited as co-writer in the album liner notes instead of Ray Gilbert.[16][17]
  2. ^ Credited to just Charles Trenet in the album liner notes, however, some sources list Léo Chauliac as co-writer.[18][19][20]

References

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  1. ^ "Valve Bone Woe (with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble) by Chrissie Hynde". Apple Music. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  2. ^ Althea Legaspi (April 25, 2019). "Chrissie Hynde Previews New Covers LP With Rendition of 'Caroline, No'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  3. ^ "Chrissie Hynde's Album 'Valve Bone Woe' Out Today". Genesis Publications. September 6, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  4. ^ Douris, Raina; Junod, Kimberly (December 12, 2019). "The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde Goes For Jazz Karaoke On 'Valve Bone Woe' Covers". NPR. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d Valve Bone Woe (Media notes). Chrissie Hynde. BMG. 2019.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ Hynde, Chrissie (September 6, 2019). "Valve Bone Woe, the new album from Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble is out now". Facebook. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Chrissie Hynde: Valve Bone Woe". American Songwriter. September 5, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Valve Bone Woe by Chrissie Hynde & the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  9. ^ a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Valve Bone Woe – Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble, Chrissie Hynde". AllMusic. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  10. ^ a b Rachel Aroesti (September 6, 2019). "Chrissie Hynde: Valve Bone Woe review – offbeat jazz with rock star cool". The Guardian. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  11. ^ "Album reviews: MUNA – Saves the World, Iggy Pop – Free and Chrissie Hynde – Valve Bone Woe". The Independent. September 5, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  12. ^ Ross Horton (September 10, 2019). "Chrissie Hynde – Valve Bone Woe". musicOMH. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  13. ^ Alan O'Hare (September 6, 2019). "Chrissie Hynde album review: Valve Bone Woe". The Skinny. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  14. ^ Rich Wilhelm (October 31, 2019). "From Nancy Wilson to Brian Wilson, and Beyond with the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde". PopMatters. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  15. ^ Matt Silver (January 21, 2020). "Jazz Album of the Week: A Surprising Mix of Music from Chrissie Hynde and Valve Bone Woe Ensemble". WRTI. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  16. ^ Joslyn Layne. "Ray Gilbert Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  17. ^ ""Once I Loved" sheet music". Instituto Antônio Carlos Jobim. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  18. ^ "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?: [arrangement pour piano solo] / Charles Trenet, Léo Chauliac, composition". Musée de la Musique. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  19. ^ "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?". charles-trenet.net. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  20. ^ ""Que reste-t'il de nos amours? - I Wish You Love" paroles Charles Trenet & Albert A. Beach, musique Léo Chauliac (1942)". Radio France. March 4, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  21. ^ "Ultratop.be – Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – Valve Bone Woe" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  22. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – Valve Bone Woe" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  23. ^ "Portuguesecharts.com – Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – Valve Bone Woe". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  24. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  25. ^ "Spanishcharts.com – Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – Valve Bone Woe". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  26. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – Valve Bone Woe". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  27. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  28. ^ "Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart Top 30". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  29. ^ "Chrissie Hynde Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  30. ^ "Chrissie Hynde Chart History (Top Jazz Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
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