Warner Bros Records has signed singer/actress Emmy Rossum (currently starring in Showtime’s Shameless) and will be releasing her new album Sentimental Journey on January 29, 2013. Sentimental Journey will feature 13 tracks of classic songs sung by Rossum.
The songs included on Sentimental Journey span the 1920s through the 1960s. “I grew up surrounded by classical music singing in the Children’s Chorus at The Metropolitan Opera and when I would come home, the house was filled with the voices of Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, and Judy Garland,” said Rossum. “For as long as I can remember, my mother would sing ‘Apple Blossom Time’ to me as a bedtime lullaby. Classics, jazz, and standards really infused my childhood and so it felt quite natural to finally make this record.”
According to Rossum, the album plays like a musical calendar and will take listeners on an emotional journey. “Each song needed to either lyrically or emotionally reflect the corresponding month. Some songs were obvious fits, like ‘Summer Wind’ for June, ‘Apple Blossom Time’ for May, ‘Autumn Leaves’ for October, and ‘Pretty Paper’ for December. Others songs were less literal fits. I chose ‘Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down and Out)’ for September because, to me, the plaintive melody and lyric emotionally reflect the cold weather creeping in and the sense of melancholy we can get in the fall months.”
Sentimental Journey was recorded over just three days, with Rossum working closely with her friend & producer Stuart Brawley on the album in Los Angeles at The Village. The two previously worked together on her Inside Out album released in 2007. “Whenever I have an artistic compulsion, I follow it,” explained Rossum. “For a while I had been feeling a strong desire to make music again and a strong desire to make this kind of music — songs written and recorded before music became synthesized and computerized-sounding, when it was just simple, beautiful songs and someone standing up and singing them. I know there are generations that are familiar with this music and the original versions, but there’s also a whole generation that isn’t and I really want to share these songs with that younger generation as well. I’ve always gravitated towards a more classic vocal approach, which likely stems from my training as a child, so I feel incredibly comfortable and happy singing these songs.”
Sentimental Journey Track List
“Sentimental Journey” (Les Brown, Ben Homer, Arthur Green)
“The Object Of My Affection” (Pinky Tomlin)
“I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover “(Mort Dixon, Harry M. Woods)
“These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)” (Eric Maschwitz, Jack Strachey)
“(I’ll Be With You) In Apple Blossom Time” (Albert Von Tilzer, Neville Fleeson)
“Summer Wind” (Heinz Meier, Johnny Mercer)
“Many Tears Ago” (Winfield Scott)
“All I Do Is Dream Of You” (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed)
“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” (Jimmy Cox)
“Autumn Leaves” (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert)
“Things” (Bobby Darin)
“Pretty Paper” (Willie Nelson)
Bonus Track:
“Keep Young and Beautiful” (Harry Warren, Al Dubin)
Visit http://emmyrossum.warnerreprise.com for more details.
Source: Warner Bros Records
