Painted Desert Serenade

Last updated

Painted Desert Serenade
Painted Desert Serenade.jpg
Studio album by
Joshua Kadison
ReleasedMay 18, 1993
Recorded1992
Genre Soft rock
Length36:51
Label
Producer
Joshua Kadison chronology
Painted Desert Serenade
(1993)		 Delilah Blue
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Music & Media Favorable [2]

Painted Desert Serenade is the debut studio album by American pianist/singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison, released in 1993 on SBK (a subsidiary of Capitol Records). It features two singles, both of which reached the top 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100: "Jessie" peaked at number 26, while "Beautiful in My Eyes" reached number 19 in 1994. The album was certified Gold in the United States in August 1994, and Platinum the following April.

Contents

Critical reception

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Bryan Buss called it "chock full of odes to finding romance, longing for romance and losing romance". [1] Music & Media wrote, "Whereas most singer/songwriters operate in the cult hero circle, Kadison has an unmistakable ACE potential. The single Jessie could tear down walls like Walking In Memphis did for Marc Cohn. Those who even think that that's too left of centre should recognise that his voice comes close to Billy Joel and most of all to Elton John. The track Beau's All Night Radio Love Line is the finest about this delicate subject since Ben Vaughn's The Apology Line." [3]

Track listing

All songs written by Joshua Kadison.

  1. "Jessie" – 5:19
  2. "Painted Desert Serenade" – 2:56
  3. "Beau's All Night Radio Love Line" – 4:26
  4. "Invisible Man" – 4:57
  5. "Mama's Arms" – 3:00
  6. "Beautiful in My Eyes" – 4:07
  7. "Picture Postcards from LA" – 4:33
  8. "When a Woman Cries" – 3:31
  9. "Georgia Rain" – 4:03

Personnel

String Quartet (Track 4)

Strings (Tracks 6 & 8)

Choir (Track 6)

Choir (Track 9)

Production

Studios

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [20] Platinum70,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [21] Gold25,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Related Research Articles

<i>Out of Season</i> (Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man album) 2002 studio album by Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man

Out of Season is a studio album by vocalist Beth Gibbons and bassist Paul Webb. It was released on 28 October 2002 in the United Kingdom and on 7 October 2003 in the United States. Out of Season is largely a folk album with jazz leanings, with Gibbons and Webb drawing more directly on the influences of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Nick Drake, at which Portishead's work in trip hop only hinted. Out of Season also features contributions from Gibbons' fellow Portishead bandmate Adrian Utley and Webb's former bandmate Lee Harris. The first track of the album, "Mysteries", appears on the original soundtrack of the French movie Les Poupées Russes, and in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting from 2008. The album achieved a silver certification from the BPI.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joshua Kadison</span> American singer-songwriter

Joshua Kadison is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and writer, who was born in Los Angeles, California. He is perhaps best known for the top 40 hits "Jessie" and "Beautiful in My Eyes" from his debut album Painted Desert Serenade. He is the son of actress Gloria Castillo, who was the inspiration behind his song "Mama's Arms". His musical style and voice are compared to Elton John.

<i>Back on the Block</i> 1989 studio album by Quincy Jones

Back on the Block is a 1989 studio album by Quincy Jones. The album features musicians and singers from across three generations, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Barry White, Chaka Khan, Take 6, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge, Ray Charles and a 12-year-old Tevin Campbell.

<i>Moonflower</i> (album) 1977 studio album / Live album by Santana

Moonflower is a double album released in 1977 by Santana. The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album. It is perhaps the group's most popular live album, because the 1974 album Lotus did not receive a U.S. domestic release until 1991. It displays a mix between the fusion of Latin and blues rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the much more experimental and spiritual jazz fusion sound that characterized the band's mid-1970s work. The live material was recorded during the supporting tour for the Amigos album. This is the first of 5 albums with drummer Graham Lear.

<i>Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time</i> 2006 studio album by Rod Stewart

Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time is the 24th album by Rod Stewart, released on 10 October 2006. After four years of success singing pop standards from the Great American Songbook, Still the Same was composed of classic rock covers.

<i>Dylanesque</i> 2007 studio album by Bryan Ferry

Dylanesque is the twelfth studio album by English singer Bryan Ferry, released on 5 March 2007 by Virgin Records. The album consists of cover versions of ten Bob Dylan songs and one traditional song that Dylan himself covered on his first album. It charted at number five in both the United Kingdom and Sweden. Soon after completion of the album, Ferry returned with most of the same musicians to film live re-recordings of the songs in the studio. The film, which includes interview clips with Ferry, is available on the DVD, Dylanesque Live: The London Sessions.

<i>Vagabond Heart</i> 1991 studio album by Rod Stewart

Vagabond Heart is the sixteenth studio album by British recording artist Rod Stewart, released on 25 March 1991 by Warner Bros. Records. The album reached No. 10 in the US, and reached No. 2 in the UK. The album features five singles, among them a cover of Robbie Robertson's song "Broken Arrow" and Van Morrison's song "Have I Told You Lately", which would become a hit two years later, and is Stewart's most recent top five solo hit in the US and the UK. The two biggest hits from the album were "Rhythm of My Heart" and "The Motown Song". The latter song features with Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro and Jeff Porcaro nearly the whole band of Toto.

<i>Have a Little Faith</i> (Joe Cocker album) 1994 studio album by Joe Cocker

Have a Little Faith is the fourteenth studio album by Joe Cocker, released in 1994 in North America by 550 Music, a former unit of Sony Music Entertainment, and in the rest of the world by Capitol Records. The album peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Charts. Music videos were released for "Let the Healing Begin", "Have a Little Faith in Me", "The Simple Things", "Summer in the City" and "Take Me Home", a duet with Bekka Bramlett.

<i>Camouflage</i> (Rod Stewart album) 1984 studio album by Rod Stewart

Camouflage is the thirteenth studio album by Rod Stewart released in 1984 by Warner Bros. Records. The four singles from the album were "Infatuation", "Trouble", a cover of The Persuaders hit "Some Guys Have All the Luck", and a cover of the Free hit, "All Right Now". The album marked a reunion of sorts between Stewart and Jeff Beck, who plays guitar on several tracks, as the two had been members of the influential 1960s group The Jeff Beck Group.

<i>Lead Vocalist</i> (album) 1993 compilation album by Rod Stewart

Lead Vocalist is a compilation album released by Rod Stewart on 22 February 1993. It was released by Warner Bros. Records in the UK and Germany, but was never released in the US. Three songs from this album either had previously or would be released as singles: "Tom Traubert's Blues", "Shotgun Wedding", and "Ruby Tuesday".

<i>Human</i> (Rod Stewart album) 2001 studio album by Rod Stewart

Human is the nineteenth studio album by Rod Stewart released on 12 March 2001. It was Stewart's first, and only release on Atlantic Records. It produced the singles "Run Back Into Your Arms", "I Can't Deny It", "Soul On Soul" and "Don't Come Around Here" with "I Can't Deny It" became a moderate hit, peaking at number 26 in the United Kingdom, Stewart's most recent Top 40 to date in that chart. The album was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry. Human was also his first album not to feature an original Stewart track. On the third track, "Don’t Come Around Here", Stewart is joined by Helicopter Girl.

<i>No Ordinary World</i> 1999 studio album by Joe Cocker

No Ordinary World is the seventeenth studio album by Joe Cocker, released on 8 October 1999 in Europe and on 22 August 2000 in USA. The US edition of the album features two bonus tracks and has different cover artwork. Notable songs on the album include a cover of Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan" and "She Believes in Me" co-written by Bryan Adams, who had also provided backing vocals for the song.

<i>Soulbook</i> 2009 studio album by Rod Stewart

Soulbook is the 25th studio album by Rod Stewart. Like his previous five albums, Soulbook features Stewart singing old material; for this album he sings classic material from Motown and the soul genre. It was released on 17 October 2009 and was produced by Steve Tyrell, Steven Jordan and Chuck Kentis.

<i>Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V</i> 2010 studio album by Rod Stewart

Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V is the fifth title in Rod Stewart's series of covers of pop standards, released on 19 October 2010, and his 26th studio album overall. It has sold 363,000 copies as of October 2012.

<i>Delilah Blue</i> 1995 studio album by Joshua Kadison

Delilah Blue is the second full-length studio album from pianist/singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison. Released on November 1, 1995, it featured a change of tack. Whereas the previous album had featured shorter songs, this disc presents a jazzier version of Kadison's music, with much longer tracks. He again wrote all the songs himself, but this time featured in the production credits as well.

<i>Merry Christmas, Baby</i> (album) 2012 studio album by Rod Stewart

Merry Christmas, Baby, is the first Christmas album by Rod Stewart and his 27th studio album overall, released on 30 October 2012. The album has proved to be a top 10 success in many countries including the UK, US, Canada and Australia. It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in November 2012 with over 1,000,000 copies sold in the US.

<i>Time</i> (Rod Stewart album) 2013 studio album by Rod Stewart

Time is the twenty-eighth studio album by Rod Stewart, it was released on 3 May 2013 in the UK, on 7 May in the US and Canada, and on 8 May in Japan under the title "Time: Toki no Tabibito" (タイム~時の旅人~). In May 2013, Stewart released Time, a rock album of his own original material. It marked a return to songwriting after what Stewart termed "a dark period of twenty years"; he said that writing his autobiography gave him the impetus to write music again. The album entered the top 10 in the US and entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 1, setting a new British record for the longest gap between chart-topping albums by an artist, as his last studio album to reach the top spot was A Night on the Town in 1976. The album was certified platinum in the UK on 16 August 2013 and double-platinum on 29 December 2017. Overall, the album was the No. 7 best-selling album of 2013 in the UK. In the United States, the album has sold 141,000 copies as of September 2015.

<i>The Who Hits 50!</i> (album) 2014 compilation album by the Who

The Who Hits 50! is a compilation of singles by the English rock band the Who, released in 2014 by Polydor Records. The two-disc set contains every single released by the band in the United Kingdom, with the exceptions of: "A Legal Matter" and "La-La-La-Lies" from 1966; and "Long Live Rock" and the remake of "I'm One" from 1979. At the same time it also contains every single by the band released in the United States throughout their career, with the exceptions of: "The Real Me" from 1974; the reissue of "Substitute" from 1976; and "Long Live Rock" from 1979. A condensed single-disc standard edition appeared as well, both versions in conjunction with the band's 50th anniversary and associated tour of the same name. The album is notable for containing singles generally not included on other compilation albums, such as the band's Rolling Stones cover "The Last Time" done as an act of solidarity while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were facing jail time, along with other lesser-known singles "Dogs" and "Call Me Lightning".

<i>Elwan</i> 2017 studio album by Tinariwen

Elwan is the seventh album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2017. The title means "elephants" in Tamashek and the term is used as a metaphor for militias and corporations that have trampled the fragile natural and human ecosystems of the desert. The album was partially recorded in Joshua Tree National Park with additional recording in Paris, France and M'hamed El Ghizlane, Morocco. The album includes guest appearances by Matt Sweeney, Kurt Vile, Mark Lanegan, and Alain Johannes. One reviewer called the album "devastatingly beautiful," and another described the album as "musing on the values of ancestry, unity and fellowship, driven by the infectiously hypnotic cyclical guitar grooves that wind like creepers around their poetic imagery." AllMusic named Elwan as one of the best albums of 2017.

<i>Earthling</i> (Eddie Vedder album) 2022 studio album by Eddie Vedder

Earthling is the third solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Eddie Vedder. The album was released on February 11, 2022, by Republic Records and Seattle Surf.

References

  1. 1 2 "Painted Desert Serenade – Joshua Kadison – Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music & Media . March 19, 1994. p. 9. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  3. ↑ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music & Media . March 19, 1994. p. 9. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Joshua Kadison – Painted Desert Serenade". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Joshua Kadison – Painted Desert Serenade" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Joshua Kadison – Painted Desert Serenade" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Joshua Kadison – Painted Desert Serenade" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Charts.nz – Joshua Kadison – Painted Desert Serenade". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Joshua Kadison – Painted Desert Serenade". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Joshua Kadison – Painted Desert Serenade". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Joshua Kadison Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Jahreshitparade Alben 1994". austriancharts.at. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten – Album 1994". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1994". hitparade.ch. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  18. ↑ "ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  19. ↑ "Top Selling Albums of 1995". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  20. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1995 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved November 28, 2021.
  21. ↑ "IFPI Norsk platebransje Trofeer 1993–2011" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.