Simple Things (CD)

Straddling the line between pop and new age, Jim Brickman's mellow piano compositions evoke romance, hope, and quiet inspiration. Brickman first made his name in the mid-1990s as a Windham Hill artist--one of the few solo instrumentalists to have scored a Billboard hit--and branched out from there with some pop and country collaborations, Christmas recordings, and an album of classic Disney covers. By 2000 he had adopted the musical persona of the suave but menschy romantic that, coupled with his clean-cut good looks, earned him an adoring female audience. Brickman split with Windham Hill in 2005, but continues to own the Adult Contemporary charts.

• Category:  Music  »  Instrumental Music  »  Piano
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• Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Label: Windham Hill Records
• UPC: 019341158929
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106640116
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #47515 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #303 in Instrumental Music (See Top 100 Instrumental Music Bestsellers)
• #85 in Piano (See Top 100 Piano Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Jim Brickman (piano); Rebecca Lynn Howard, All 4 One, Tom Douglas (vocals); Bruce Gaitsch (acoustic guitar); Jay Joyce (electric guitar); Rex Schnelle (guitar, bass, drums, background vocals); Bruce Watson (guitar); Tracy Silverman (violin, electric violin, viola); Peggy Baldwin, John Catchings (cello); Thea Suits (flute); David Grow (keyboards, programming); Michael Rhodes, Jorgen Carlsson (bass); Shannon Forest, David Salinas (drums); Caito Marcondes (percussion); Beth Nielsen Chapman, Will Wheaton, Perry Coleman, Darrell Brown, Chris Willis (background vocals).

Producers: Jim Brickman, Tracy Silverman, David Grow, Rex Schnelle.

Recorded at Brick House Studio, Studio City, California; Gutlab South and ATV Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; Howling Music Studio, Malibu Lake, California; The Coloring Book, Brentwood, Tennessee.

Jim Brickman continues to build on his growing reputation as one of America's foremost romantic songwriters with this mostly instrumental, piano-driven set. Consisting of the kind of soothing mood melodies often heard as linking music on NPR, SIMPLE THINGS is by turns melancholy, reflective, dramatic, and upbeat.

The title cut, also one of the few vocal tracks, displays the flexibility of Brickman's style; uncomplicated and refreshing, it spans R&B, pop, and country, as well as being exceptionally catchy. With titles such as "Devotion," "Serenade," and "A Mother's Day," (the latter of which is as knee-deep in sentiment as any Victorian ballad) Jim Brickman continues to carve out a niche for himself as an aural Hallmark card for the 21st century.

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