But McKay also includes the non-romantic Carmichael tune "Lazybones," and "Small Day Tomorrow," a semi-obscurity by Bob Dorough and Fran Landesman. Thats solo in all senses of the word: McKay accompanies herself on the album. Along with "Nearness," her track list includes flickering old standards like "My Romance" and "In a Sentimental Mood," raising the possibility that this is an album about love in it's various forms and stages. The track comes from McKays forthcoming solo album, Sister Orchid. "As producer, she makes judicious use of overdubs and sound design, incorporating cinematic atmosphere on a couple of tracks. "McKay accompanies herself on the album, not only playing piano, her main instrument, but also ukulele, harmonica, celeste and even a bit of harp and cello," writes NPR. An oasis of hungry eyes and easy promises, warm as a biscuit, the kind of place your mother warned you against.
It comes from a place of quiet, a world of low lights and cool drinks, up against a hard wall. Read reviews and buy Nellie McKay - Sister Orchid (Vinyl) at Target. Sister Orchid was conceived in solitude, executed in darkness. this album speaks of the night, the outsider, the plaintive wail of those lost at sea. Sister Orchid is Nellie’s seventh album, starting with Get Away From Me (a tour de force The New York Times), including Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day (among the killer overhauls of American standards The New York Times) and My Weekly Reader, music of the ‘60s (.kicks serious butt. The Broadway-tested McKay also displays her love of cabaret as she intersperses crowd chatter and clinking glasses to theatrical effect on "Everything Happens to Me." Despite her penchant for artifice, McKay reveals her strong musical chops on Sister Orchid, launching into a mad-eyed boogie-woogie section on "Where or When" and delivering a spine-tingling, synth-accented take on "In a Sentimental Mood" that conjures the neon-soaked atmosphere of David Lynch's Twin Peaks.Conjuring the image of a lonely all night truck stop along highway 1 on the California coast, all but lost in the fog that comes creeping along the shoreline. There are also jaunty bits of ukulele, as on "Lazybones," which also features her overdubbed backing vocals. Primarily, these are spare arrangements, often just McKay accompanying herself on piano, as on the haunting "Angel Eyes." Elsewhere, as on her dusky reading of "Where or When," she weaves in a mournful cello. Allen has worked with a bevy of jazz, folk, and pop artists including Kurt Elling, José James, Ingrid Michaelson, Andrew Bird, and others, and brings a soft, natural warmth that never interferes with McKay's performance. McKay, who arranged and played all of the songs on Sister Orchid, recorded the album in New York with engineer Chris Allen. Albums Normal as Blueberry Pie - A Tribute to Doris Day Barnes & Noble Exclusive Nellie McKay, October 13, 2009, Verve Records Sister Orchid Nellie. Here, McKay takes a deftly straightforward approach, performing a set of well-chosen standards that wouldn't be out of place on an album by Blossom Dearie (another McKay touchstone) from the 1950s. Similarly, on 2015's My Weekly Reader, McKay took on some of her favorite '60s pop tunes by bands like the Kinks, Herman's Hermits, Moby Grape, and others.
The closest the idiosyncratic singer/songwriter had gotten previously was her brightly attenuated 2009 Doris Day tribute, Normal as Blueberry Pie, which found her investigating songs heavily associated with the iconic actress and singer. Given her jazz-influenced sound and knack for thoughtfully chosen cover songs, it's surprising that Nellie McKay had never released a complete jazz standards album until 2018's smoky, intimately rendered Sister Orchid.
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