Diana Krall covers Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney on new album Wallflower
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Singer and pianist Diana Krall releases a new album on Verve records in September, which will include her own special reinterpretations of songs that have inspired her since the late 1960s.
Wallflower is the first new studio recording from the five-time Grammy award winning singer since she released Glad Rag Doll in October 2012, which included jazz interpretations of vaudeville songs from the 1920s to the 1950s, was helmed by top roots producer T Bone Burnett, and debuted on the US Jazz Chart at No.1 and hit No. 6 on the Billboard national chart.
Wallflower, which is released on 6 October, includes Harry Nilsson’s ‘Everybody’s Talkin’’, the Mamas and Papas’ 'California Dreamin’', The Eagles’ ‘Desperado’, Elton John’s ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’, Bob Dylan’s ‘Wallflower’ and a previously unreleased new composition by Paul McCartney, ‘If I Could Take You Home Tonight’, all interpreted in her unique style that has seen her become the biggest selling female jazz album artist of the past 30 years.
The album is produced by David Foster, the Canadian pianist, songwriter and producer, who has a string of major production credits and 16 Grammy Awards. Krall previously worked with Foster, who is also chairman of Verve Music Group, on the soundtrack of The Score, a 2001 movie starring Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro where she performed ‘I’ll Make It Up, As I Go’, written by Foster. Commenting on the forthcoming release Krall said: “It was a nice change for me to be in the vocal booth with pretty much only David’s superb piano accompaniment and orchestrations.”
– Jon Newey