Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. S.O.B.
2. Road Between, The
3. Lights Out
4. Better Beware
5. Nobody Noticed It
6. Sinking In
7. Important
8. So Lovely
9. Indifferent
10. Gone
11. To Whom It May Concern
| | Details | | Producer: | Andrew Slater, Eric Rosse | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Enhancements include "Lights Out" video and a behind the scenes look at the making of the video.
Personnel: Lisa Marie Presley (vocals); Bruce Watson, Gus Walsh, Stuart Mathis, Steve Caton, David Walsh, Wendy Melvoin, Jon Brion, Lyle Workman, Doyle Bramhall, Rusty Anderson (guitar); Cameron Stone (viola, cello); Patrick Warren (piano); Eric Rosse (Fender Rhodes piano, organ, programming); Jim Cox (Hammond B-3 organ); Zac Rae (chamberlain); Paul Bushnell (bass); Matt Chamberlain (drums, tambourine, percussion); Gary Novak (drums, percussion); Abe Laboriel Jr. (acoustic & electronic drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Danielle Keough, Benjamin Keough, Nicolai Dorian (background vocals).
Recorded at Royaltone Studios, North Hollywood, California; Animas Studio, Hollywood, California; Capito Studios, Hollywood, California; Exactly Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Bearing the brunt of being Elvis Presley's only child, Lisa Marie Presley wisely chose to sit back and experience life before emerging with her full-length debut album TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. The results are surprisingly good, thanks to Presley's decision to sidestep becoming some prefabricated pop mannequin and instead take the creative reigns by penning all the lyrics, save the lament "The Road Between." Most of the record is steeped in dark imagery that goes well with her smoky phrasing and finds her serving up autobiographical tidbits like "Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis/That's where my family's buried and gone" from the mid-tempo rock of "Lights Out." A slow-burn vitriol that could be construed as being directed at former spouse Michael Jackson bubbles up throughout the simmering "Important," and will surely have amateur biographers cocking their ears. Lisa Marie avoids making this musical outing one solely steeped in bitterness by including "So Lovely," a sweet ode to her children that's laced with crying guitar and a s***** of the theme from the film MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
| | Editorial reviews | 3 stars out of 5 - ...Presley's husky voice is tinged with a world weariness that gives the album a melancholy feel...
Mojo (07/01/2003)
...Country-flecked rock with wedges of pop and not a little surliness....Her rich, smoky vocals evoke Sheryl Crow and occasionally bear traces of Courtney Love's ragged disaffection... - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (04/11/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...A dark memoir, alternately regretful and scathing, dripping confessional acid...
Rolling Stone (05/01/2003)
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