Walkin After Midnight

Anna Wilson Marries Country and Pop on 'Countrypolitan Duets'

“The reason it was called ‘The Nashville Sound’ was because these artists decided to bring these lush string arrangements and more pop sensibilities into their country recordings," explains. "Because they were known as country artists, so that they could get more mainstream airplay on the radio, alongside guys like Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Torme, all those guys which were the pop music of the day back then.  And so a lot of people criticized country artists for going too pop, kind of abandoning their country roots.  But what they really did was they opened up country music to the rest of the world.” “I grew up on the Great American Songbook and all the great jazz and Broadway standards and stuff like that," she says.  "But, I also started getting into country music in high school and really loved it.  That was back when country was really having its big explosion in the late-‘80s, early-‘90s.  When, of course, it came time for me to graduate college I was caught up in all of that.  So I said, ‘I’m going to go to Nashville.’” “It is the one track on the record I think that completely embodies the entire concept of the record," she says.  "It’s a classic country song made famous by a legendary artist who fortunately happens to still be alive and can sing on it, being Ray Price.  And then I’ve got my contemporary country music friends in Rascal Flatts to be on it.  And then, of course, myself the jazz singer.

Inland Empire Weekly - Walkin' After Midnight

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Allen’s best films have been about interesting people absorbed by their human frailties. This time around, however, he lets the backdrop take center stage. The actors move in and out as needed to showcase the beauty, art and mystique of Paris.

 

In this story, Gil (Owen Wilson) and his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), have tagged along with Inez’ rich parents, John (Kurt Fuller) and Helen (Mimi Kennedy), as they travel to Paris on a business trip. Inez and family are enjoying the good life—eating, shopping, leisurely drives in the country. Gil would rather take in the Paris art scene in hopes of finding inspiration for his new novel, an idea Inez views with blunt skepticism.

 

One day, as they’re eating in a restaurant, Inez runs into friends Paul (Michael Sheen) and Carol (Nina Arianda). Paul is a pompous intellectual who gets under Gil’s skin. Inez, however, finds him charming. When they invite Gil and Inez to go dancing after a wine party, Inez says yes, but Gil declines and takes a late-night walk. Inez warns him he’ll get lost. He does.

 

While sitting on a step trying to find his way back to the hotel, a bell rings in a tower and an old taxi shows up with F. Scott Fitzgerald and friends. Gil gets in and is blown away by an entourage of famous Parisian artists, writers and musicians from the 1920s.

From that point on, he comes back to the same doorway each night and gets picked up by the same taxi, and every night he makes the rounds with his artistic friends, including the beautiful Adriana (Marion Cotillard). But trying to explain all these late night excursions to Inez and family, well, that’s a bit of a sticky wicket.

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