Dragonfly Summer

Dragonfly Summer is a smooth vocal jazz album by American singer-songwriter and musician Michael Franks.[1] It was released in 1993 with Reprise, and was Franks' twelfth studio album, with no fewer than five producers.

Dragonfly Summer
Studio album by
Michael Franks
Released1993 (1993)
Genre
Length57:28
LabelReprise
Producer
Michael Franks chronology
Blue Pacific
(1990)		 Dragonfly Summer
(1993)		 Abandoned Garden
(1995)

Track listing

All tracks are written by Michael Franks, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Coming to Life"4:34
2."Soul Mate"4:26
3."Dragonfly Summer"5:00
4."Monk's New Tune"5:42
5."Learning What Love Means"4:14
6."I Love Lucy" (Harold Adamson, William Bell, Eliot Daniel, Booker T. Jones)4:37
7."Practice Makes Perfect"4:55
8."String of Pearls"4:32
9."Keeping My Eye on You"4:23
10."The Dream" (Russell Ferrante, Franks, Jimmy Haslip, Marc Russo)5:14
11."You Were Meant for Me"4:40
12."How I Remember You"5:11

Personnel

Musicians

Support

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Music critic Alex Henderson had mixed feelings for the album, writing in AllMusic that it "isn't one of the pop/jazz singer's better albums, but it has its moments." He was critical of Peggy Lee's duet in "You Were Meant for Me", but thought highly of the "String of Pearls" and "Monk's New Tune" tracks produced by The Yellowjackets.[2]

Stanton was more positive for his review on Audioholics, commenting that "Michael Franks was in top form for this release: catchy, cynical lyrics and great music from great musicians."[3]

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gollark: If you want to factor in each individual location's needs in some giant model, you'll run into issues like:- people lying- it would be horrifically complex
gollark: Information flow: imagine some farmer, due to some detail of their climate/environment, needs extra wood or something. But the central planning models just say "each farmer needs 100 units of wood for farming 10 units of pig"; what are they meant to do?
gollark: The incentives problems: central planners aren't really as affected by how well they do their jobs as, say, someone managing a firm, and you probably lack a way to motivate people "on the ground" as it were.
gollark: What, so you just want us to be stuck at one standard of living forever? No. Technology advances and space mining will... probably eventually happen.

References
  1. "Discography in Order of Release". MichaelFranks.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  2. Henderson, Alex. Dragonfly Summer – Michael Franls at AllMusic. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  3. Stanton (December 7, 2006). "Michael Franks: Dragonfly Summer (1993)". Audioholics. Retrieved September 4, 2018.

Bibliography
  • Dragonfly Summer (CD booklet). Michael Franks. United States: Reprise. 1993. p. 6. 45227.CS1 maint: others (link)
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