If you’ve seen Janelle Lauer sing, you’ve been converted. Turn the Corner, Janelle’s first studio album, proves that her power to capture listeners and deliver passion to every ear extends far beyond live performance.
Turn the Corner is a musical marathon of seamlessly bound styles, driven by Janelle’s voice and unbelievable talent for communicating emotion. Featuring five of Lauer’s original songs, Turn the Corner courses through dramatic musical terrain – Janelle glides effortlessly between original compositions, gospel, musical theatre, and jazz classics. She owns each piece, masterfully navigating “I Will Remember You” and “The Air Is Free” by fellow Iowan and Broadway composer Robert Lindsey Nassif, and softer classics, including “At Last” and “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.”
There are moments in these tunes when all you can do is shiver in awe; those moments when the hair on the back of your neck rises because you’re not sure you’ve ever been in the presence of such exceptional beauty.
Turn the Corner was released February 11, 2005.
Track Listing
- Independence (Estella/Lauer)
- As A Matter of Fact (Lauer)
- Not While I’m Around (Sondheim)
- I Will Remember You (Nassif)
- Breathe (Estella/Lauer/Kanz)
- At Last (Warren/Gordon)
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern/Harbach)
- The Air Is Free (Nassif)
- Ain’t No Sunshine (Withers)
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord (Dorsey)
- God Bless the Child (Holiday/Herzog)
- Fairytale (Estella/Lauer)
- Come Back (Estella/Lauer/Kanz)