Barb Jungr

Barb Jungr – Barb Jungr sings Leonard Cohen (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 27:42 minutes | 282 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kristalyn Records

‘The UK’s finest interpreter of song’, Barb Jungr has long been associated with the work of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Her Hard Rain collection of 2014 received 5 star reviews on 3 continents and her live performance of the policial songs of Dylan and Cohen ran for 3 weeks of sold out performances in New York. Accompanied by Jenny Carr, who has played with everyone from Jason Donovan to Claire Martin, Barb breathes something new into every lyric and melody you thought you knew. From her early beginnings on the fledgling London alternative cabaret circuit, through almost every musical genre, Barb Jungr’s work has often defied categorisation. Accompanied by some of the best live musicians in Britain her increasingly rare live appearances are unmissable.
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Barb Jungr – Waterloo Sunset (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:25 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records

Linn Records announces the release of its third Barb Jungr album, Waterloo Sunset. Winner of the New York International Artist of the Year (Backstage Bistro Awards, 2003)

Barb Jungr expresses her passionate artistry with this new collection of classic and original material. With the most original voice since Nina Simone or Edith Piaf, Barb carves a unique path through many genres of popular music. This “world-class female vocalist” (Daily Telegraph) has written three original songs for her new album. ‘Do You Play Guitar’, the album’s elegaic opening track, ‘Written Down In The Dark Again’, a disturbing exploration of sex, and ‘Lipstick Lips Lament’, a wonderful evocation of classic American song-writing.

She spins the naivety of the Everly Brother’s ‘Cathy’s Clown’ into a love story of complex sensuality and manipulative deceit. Leon Russell’s ‘This Masquerade’ resonates with the regret and love affair and Bob Dylan’s ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ is stripped of it’s spleen and transformed into an intense psychoanalytical interrogation. Bridging musical styles Barb makes each song her own, from the jazz inspired ‘When Do The Bells Ring For Me’, through the deep blues of Dylan’s ‘High Water For Charlie Patton’, to the high wire excitement of Richard Thompson’s ‘The Great Valerio’. The title track is a shimmering version of Ray Davies’ ‘Waterloo Sunset’, long a favourite of Barb’s live audience.
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Barb Jungr – Walking in the Sun (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:40 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records

“Walking in the Sun” heralds a new direction for one of Europe’s finest voices. Drawing on influences from a wide range of musical traditions, including gospel and the blues, the album also includes some exciting new self-penned material. Music lovers will appreciate lyrics by Jimmy Reed, Carole King and Randy Newman as well as a new song by Eric Bibb.
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Barb Jungr – The Men I Love: The New American Songbook (2010/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:17 minutes | 634 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naim Records

Barb Jungr is more than just a great singer. She’s one of the world’s premiere song stylists, drawing critical acclaim both sides of the Atlantic. Her latest album, The Men I Love, her first for Naim documents Jungr’s love of American popular song and its songwriters.
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Barb Jungr – Stockport to Memphis (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:13 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naim Records

Stockport To Memphis is the superb new album from Barb Jungr, one of the world’s foremost interpreters of song. Variously described by critics as magnificent, mesmerising and magical, Barb Jungr has built a formidable reputation as an international live performer and recording artiste. She has perfected the art of interpretation to such a level that listeners are often astonished to discover that well-known songs that they thought they knew have been wonderfully transformed and very often elevated when Barb weaves her magic spell. Stockport To Memphis marks a significant new direction for Barb as she has included five of her own songs in the collection, which also features her new arrangements of songs by Sam Cooke, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Rod Argent, Mike Scott, Hank Williams, Tom Waits and, of course, Bob Dylan. Barb Jungr has never been to Memphis. But as a teenage girl in 1960s Stockport, she nurtured a longing for what it represented; the sweet soul music she danced to in clubs at night, and its sense of a bigger, more beautiful world than the northern industrial town she couldn’t wait to leave (as embodied by the title-track and stunning album opener). The album charts a metaphorical journey, through Barb’s life and self-discovery.
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Barb Jungr – Shelter From The Storm: Songs Of Hope For Troubled Times (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:14 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records

While driving down some motorway last year I realised I wanted to make an album in New York. I wanted to work with US jazz musicians, tap into a different water and sing a different song. It was a dream. I was on a motorway somewhere towards the fens. So, when I shared it with Philip and Kim of Linn Records and they said: “Why not?” and “Let’s do it!” a ball started rolling and I had to learn to balance on top of it – and fast – because when I shared all of that with my US manager Gail Boyd, she said: “Why not do it with Laurence Hobgood?” And I said: “Wow! Are you kidding me? That man’s fabulous.” Then she brought Laurence Hobgood to see me perform in NY and when we chatted after the show, he appreciated what I was doing and said lovely things, and I thought he was the bees’ knees. So we started hanging out, and drank a lot of coffee, and wrote some things, and suddenly we were in a glorious joyful collaboration and the ball had become a transatlantic magic carpet! And here it is.
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Barb Jungr – Love Me Tender (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:05 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records

Britain’s foremost chansonnier with a song-styled take on material sung by Elvis Presley.
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Barb Jungr – Just like a woman – hymn to Nina (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:18 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records

Barb Jungr’s hymn to the late, great Nina Simone. This beautiful, haunting album combines Barb’s compelling arrangements and resolute delivery to bring a fresh perspective on songs associated with her heroine Nina Simone.
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Barb Jungr – Every Grain of Sand: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan (2002)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:16 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records

The cult classic album of song-styled material from the Bob Dylan songbook. Barb Jungr’s first album of Bob Dylan songs has deservedly become known as a cult classic and has won her a dedicated fan base around the world. The album even has celebrity fans, with Jeremy Irons naming it as one of the must-have albums on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
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