It’s been seven years since actress Minnie Driver last released an album and she had a good reason for the delay: She became a mom. “[Motherhood] is good for writing, but it’s not good for touring and putting a record out. I’ve got like four other records ready to go.”
When it finally came time to start thinking of getting back into the studio, she decided on tackling songs she obsessed over throughout her life. In doing so, she takes material from Elliott Smith, the Killers, the Cure, Frank Sinatra, Neil Young, John Prine and Stevie Wonder and mixes country-folk, piano pop and jazzy twists on the originals for her third studio album, “Ask Me to Dance,” which is streaming exclusively on Speakeasy below.
Stand-out tracks include her take on Elliott Smith’s “Waltz #2,” whom she met on the set of “Good Will Hunting,” Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why” and the Cure’s “Close to Me,” the latter inspired by her days as a teenager attending awkward school dances. “I was so tall, nobody would literally ask me to dance,” she says. “I didn’t slow dance until I was about 17 years old.”
Oh and the streaming link:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/10/01/minnie-driver-ask-me-to-dance-stream/
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| “Waltz #2″ by Elliott Smith | 2 |
| Neil Finn’s “Better Be Home Soon” | 1 |
| Paul Weller's "Wild Wood" | 0 |
| Stevie Wonder’s “Master Blaster” | 0 |
| Frank Sinatra's “Fly Me To The Moon” | 0 |
| The Killers’ “Human” | 0 |
| John Prine’s “Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness” | 0 |
| Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why” | 0 |
| The Cure’s “Close To Me” | 0 |
| "Love Song" by The Damned. Or maybe it's The Cure again. I dunno. | 0 |
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:02 (ten years ago)