{"product_id":"rufus-wainwright-limited-edition","title":"Rufus Wainwright (Limited Edition)","description":"Amazon.com\n\nThe singer\/songwriters working today who point to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway musicals as central inspirations can be counted on an index finger. Rufus Wainwright is quite an anomaly--but, then again, he's the son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. Wainwright has been compared to Randy Newman for his piano-based orchestral sense, but unlike Newman, he rarely turns those poppy conventions against themselves: he's always sentimental and sincere about the fluff he explores. When he drives his melodies and lyrics hardest--as on the Beatlesque \"April Fools\" and the barroom \"Matinee Idol\"--his considerable imagination is most convincing and entertaining. Fans of folk simplicity should skip this one, but the more adventurous may find the charm in Wainwright's ambitious debut. --Roy Kasten\n\nReview\n\nHe knows how to fashion cuts-like-a-knife lyric phrases ... [and] craft warm-and-fuzzy art folk.... The album is utterly charming. -- Entertainment Weekly\n\nWhat makes all this worth getting used to is melody. Wainwright isn t a tunesmith, he s a melodist--his songs rarely snap shut on a sure-shot refrain. Yet goosed along by his piano and Parks s orchestral Americana, you ll follow most of them with amazed pleasure, and wake up humming one you barely noticed. -- Spin\n\n[Rufus Wainright] is a striking vocal stylist who injects enough personality into his songs to light up the cabaret circuit, and he's a writer who could have been the toast of New York during Broadway's most sophisticated era. -- The Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B000006PUJ\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B000006PUJ.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rufus Wainwright\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41570647474234,"sku":"DBV.B000006PUJ.G","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/rufus-wainwright-limited-edition","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}