Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Star Turtle 1
2. How Do Ya'll Know
3. Hear Me in the Harmony
4. Reason to Believe
5. Just Like Me
6. Star Turtle 2
7. Little Farley
8. Eyes of the Seeker
9. Nobody Like You to Me
10. Boozehound
11. Star Turtle 3
12. Never Young
13. Mind on the Matter
14. City Beneath the Sea
15. Star Turtle 4
| | Details | | Producer: | Tracey Freeman | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel: Harry Connick, Jr. (vocals, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, clarinet, piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ, Mini-Moog synthesizer, acoustic & electric guitars, acoustic & electric basses, drums, bass drum, congas); Tony Hall (vocals, guitar, bass); Ned Goold, Jerry Weldon (tenor saxophone); Dave Schumacher (baritone saxophone); Jeremy Davenport, Dan Miller (trumpet); Lucien Barbarin (trombone, percussion, cymbal); Mark Mullins (trombone); Jonathan DuBose, Jr. (guitar); Raymond Weber (drums, snare drum, percussion).
Recorded at Power Station, Studio A and Sony Music Studios, Studio D, New York, New York in December 1995.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
STAR TURTLE is a concept album about a giant turtle from outer space who lands in New Orleans and meets up with Harry Connick, Jr., who proceeds to show the shelled alien behemoth a good time in the Crescent City's various musical hot spots. This is the most prominent role played by a turtle since the Grateful Dead's TERRAPIN STATION, and perhaps the most ridiculous plot for a concept album since the Who's TOMMY; it's also a wonderfully dizzying tour through this great city's musical stylings, with Connick as the consummate tour guide.
Connick, who seems to have abandoned his Sinatra-inflected crooning style for good with the 1994 album SHE, dives head-first into the sounds of local heroes (the Meters, Neville Brothers and Radiators all loom large), out-of-town heroes ("Boozahound" is permeated by Elton Johnish honky-tonk inflections), and jukebox heroes ("Eyes Of The Seeker" is Steve Miller-esque). The turtle, by the way, has a great night and proves to be quite a dancer.
| | Editorial reviews | 3 Stars - Good - ...STAR TURTLE now stretches the canvas to include pop...and rock...amongst funk strutters...
Q (09/01/1996)
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