Track Listing

1. Change Of Heart
2. Touching Home
3. Walking The Floor Over You
4. (From Now On All My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
5. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
6. My Heart Echoes
7. The Worst Is Yet To Come
8. My Blue Tears
9. Down Low
10. You Finally Said Something Good (When You Said Goodbye)
11. She Thinks I Still Care
12. Let's Think About Living
13. Don't Ask Me To Be Friends

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1424 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 46 minutes

Album Description
Teddy Thompson's self-produced Up Front & Down Low offers distinctive readings of beloved country classics: George Jones' "She Thinks I Still Care," Dolly Parton's bittersweet "My Blue Tears," and the Elvis Presley chestnut "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone." The album also features a lone Thompson original, "Down Low," whose heart-on-sleeve lyrics take on added resonance in this context.
All the tracks on the ablum are support by beautiful string arrangements by legendary English arranger Robert Kirby, renowned for his groundbreaking work with Nick Drake, while "My Blue Tears" features strings arranged by frequent Thompson cohort Rufus Wainwright.
All the tracks on Up Front & Down Low contain commitment and musical imagination that consistently cuts to the emotional heart of the material.

Customer Reviews

why?
Just too mainstream, there are far more interesting things going on in the undergrowth - for a comparison I recommend Nick Worrall. His album is FREE to download as well.

Good, but not great
I loved Teddy Thompson's first two albums, and I'm a great fan of his dad, Richard.

I was a bit surprised to hear that he was delivering a series of country "covers". After all, it didn't really work for Van Morrrison. However, I thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. His voice is sublime, as ever, and works well for his choices.

I prefer him to do his own stuff, but this will do nicely for now. Good music for riding the range to.

A natural progression from the Brokeback Mountain ST
Both Teddy and his buddy Rufus Wainwright contributed to the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack on which their duet of King of the Road was substituted for the Roger Miller original used in the film. (I heard them both sing the same duet last night in concert.) The ST had an obvious Western twang, and many noticed that Teddy more than rose to the occasion. So, Up Front and Low Down is a more natural progression for Teddy than one might think. In fact, in concert he now revisits songs from his earlier albums with a Western lilt. His one original song on the album stacks up well with the classics he selected, and using Nick Drake's arranger for the string parts was a stroke of genius. I'm deducting one star because of the relative lack of original material