Inside Out: The IMA Sessions (1999)

About this title: Known as a women's music singer/songwriter, Ferron likes to throw her fans a curve now and then, such as on Resting with the Question, her album of New Age instrumentals. This time, she creates a covers album by revisiting the pop music she heard on the radio as a teenager in the 1960s and early '70s. Generally, the arrangements suggest the original hit recordings without slavishly copying them. The occasional exceptions comes with the rhythms. Ferron has chosen a number of syncopated songs and in several cases -- "Different Drum," "Save the Last Dance for Me," "Happy Together" -- gone ahead ... read more

Tracks:

1. Different Drum [Nesmith]
2. Walk Away Renee [Brown/Calilli/Sanso]
3. (They Long to Be) Close to You [David/Bacharach]
4. Needles and Pins [Bono/Nitzsche]
5. The End of the World [Kent/Dee]
6. Save the Last Dance for Me [Pomus/Shuman]
7. I Feel Fine [Lennon/McCartney]
8. A Town Without Pity [Tiomkin/Washington]
9. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted [Weatherspoon/Riser/]
10. A Lover's Concerto [Linzer/Randell]
11. My Girl [Robinson/White]
12. Happy Together [Bonner/Gordon]
13. Don't Worry Baby [Wilson/Christian]
14. Crazy Love [Morrison]
15. So Happy Together

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.