Never Letting Go is the fourth album by singer–songwriter Phoebe Snow, released in 1977.

Never Letting Go
Studio album by
Released1977
StudioA&R Recording, New York City
GenreSoft rock
LabelColumbia
ProducerPhil Ramone
Phoebe Snow chronology
It Looks Like Snow
(1976)
Never Letting Go
(1977)
Against the Grain
(1978)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]
Christgau's Record GuideB[2]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic William Ruhlmann wrote "...the record marked a fall-off in both her commercial success and her artistic accomplishment. The tasty studio musicians and Phil Ramone's pop-jazz production were still in place, and Snow remained a remarkable singer, but her synthesis of styles was beginning to seem not so much inspired as muddled."[1] Robert Christgau wrote of the album; "By now Snow projects a jazz singer's assurance, and the originals are still overshadowed by the covers... the tempos are invariably too reflective, and the reprises invariably too much."[2]

Track listing edit

All songs written by Phoebe Snow, except where noted.

  1. "Love Makes a Woman" (Carl Davis, Eugene Record, William Sanders, Gerald Simms) – 3:21
  2. "Majesty of Life" – 3:36
  3. "Ride the Elevator" – 3:55
  4. "Something So Right" (Paul Simon) – 4:02
  5. "Never Letting Go" (Stephen Bishop) – 3:12
  6. "We're Children" – 3:01
  7. "The Middle of the Night" – 3:33
  8. "Electra" – 3:53
  9. "Garden of Joy Blues" (Clifford Hayes) – 4:31

Personnel edit

Strings

  • Janet Hamilton and Charles McCracken – cello
  • Russ Savakos – double bass
  • Lamar Alsop and Emanuel Vardi – viola
  • Sanford Allen, Joyce Flissler, Harry Glickman, Marvin Morgenstern, Tony Posk, Herbert Sorkin and Carol Webb – violin

Brass

  • Dave Taylor – bass trombone
  • Barry Rogers – trombone
  • Randy Brecker, Victor Paz and Alan Rubin – trumpet and flugelhorn
  • Jonathan Dorn – tuba

Woodwinds

Production edit

  • Phil Ramone – producer, remixing
  • Jim Boyer – engineer
  • Gene Grief – design
  • Paula Scher – design

Reception edit

  1. ^ a b Ruhlmann, William. "Never Letting Go > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.