![]() ![]() Less successful, though, are the fairly straight songs (Alison Krauss sounds wonderful on "Evermore," but she'd sound wonderful singing the "Weekly Clipper") and the "Cow Planet" interludes. It takes a Titanic-worthy overwrought ballad and applies it to the overwrought words of a cranky kid. Yankovic's first duet together," the liner notes wryly comment). The best song on the CD may be the most familiar - the wonderful "I Need A Nap," which pairs "Weird Al" Yankovic with Kate Winslet ("this is Ms. As is often the case with albums where a collection of performers tackle the work of another artist, the best work is done by the least expected - the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan bringing his Tom Waits-esque voice to "Sneakers," or the energetic "Pots and Pans" built up to a percussive crescendo by the Bacon Brothers and Mickey Hart. ![]() diverse collection of musical performers to perform their (mostly) humorous songs - Alison Krauss, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Blues Traveler, among others. Boynton and her musical collaborator Michael Ford have recruited a. Or, well, as much as any album that features three separate episodes entitled "Cow Planet" can bring said rock. For those of you who adore Sandra Boynton's comically plaintive drawings of pets and her whimsical sense of humor, but found the Broadway show stylings of Philadelphia Chickens a little too, well, Broadway show-stylish, her 2005 album/book Dog Train really brings the rock. ![]()
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