Track Listing

1. Best Bit
2. Skimming Stone
3. Dolphins
4. Lean on Me
5. Touch Me With Your Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #206205 in Music
• Released on: 1999-08-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: EP, Import

Amazon.co.uk Review
Best Bit isn't the revelation its predecessor, Trailer Park, was. With that eye-opening debut, Beth Orton was marked as an uncommonly promising newcomer; Best Bit represents a rest stop between records. That said, the five-song EP is of value, if for no other reason than it unites the Londoner with American folk-soul stylist Terry Callier, who duets with Orton on his own "Lean on Me", as well as a cover of Fred Neil's "Dolphins". Having collaborated with such dance acts as Red Snapper and the Chemical Brothers, singer-songwriter Beth Orton is sometimes regarded as a young folky hitching a ride on the electronica bandwagon. On Trailer Park, however, she harks back to a lost 1970s tradition whose exponents included Traffic, Tim Buckley interface between jazz, blues and folk. Fleshed out with multiple layers of vibes, strings and keyboards, Trailer Park is at once a soul-searching and sensual album, with Orton's flat-edged and indistinct lyrics often seeming to melt in her own mouth. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews

Well worth the money for Dolphins alone.
If you own other Beth Orton CDs, you're likely to have heard "Best Bit" already, but track one here is a slight reworking, so you won't feel cheated. All of the tracks on the album are up to Beth's usual high standard, but the real standout is her duet with Terry Callier on their cover of Dolphins. I can't begin to convey how fantastic this song is, and it would be worth buying the EP even if it only had this one track on it. It really is that good!

with a voice from heaven
With a mixture of Terry Callier and Beth Orton!
I'd never heard of Terry Callier until now-a Jazz Musician with a voice like satin, mix this with Beth's voice of silk and you have a smooth and blissful sound to please anyone's ears.
Lean on me is a pretty awsome track and they do a good cover of 'Dolphins'.
I read in a interview with Beth about this EP that she was suggested by Terry to 'just sing like him and he will try to sing like her', subsequently a harmonious match made in heaven, better in my opinion than any of her new stuff, a lot more passionate, just a lot more Beth.l