Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is the sixth album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The album consists of live recordings from his sold-out June 14–15, 2006, tribute concerts to the American actress and singer Judy Garland. Guests on the album include Wain Wright’s sister Martha and his mother Kate McGarrigle, along with one of Garland’s daughters, Lorna Luft. The tribute concerts were popular and the album was well received by critics, but album sales were limited.
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Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is the sixth album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The album consists of live recordings from his sold-out June 14–15, 2006, tribute concerts to the American actress and singer Judy Garland. Guests on the album include Wain Wright’s sister Martha and his mother Kate McGarrigle, along with one of Garland’s daughters, Lorna Luft. The tribute concerts were popular and the album was well received by critics, but album sales were limited. The final performance was on September 23, 2007 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California. The February 25, 2007 tribute concert filmed at the London Palladium was released on DVD on December 4, 2007. RufUS Does Judy At Carnegie Hall managed to chart in three nations, peaking at number 84 in Belgium, number 88 in the Netherlands and number 171 on the United States’ Billboard 200. For his album, Wainewright was also recognized by the Grammy Awards, earning a 2009 nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. The cover of Time Out New York was written by Marc Jacobs and Marc Jacobs was on the cover of The New York Times and in the pages of The Guardian and The Saturday Evening Post. In the magazine, Jacobs wrote that the cover was “sparkled in the face of New York fashion designer Marc Jacobs” and that it was “the greatest night in show business history” The album was released through Geffen Records in December 2007.
Due to popular demand, the tribute was performed a total of six times. After tickets for the first show sold out, a second show was added at the same venue for the following three concerts in Europe, February 18 in London, February 20 in Paris and February 25 once again at L’Olympia in London. Waine’s tribute was also performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York City on April 23, 2008. The concert was a tribute to Garland’s 1961 double album, Judy at. Carnegie Hall, a comeback performance with more than 25 American pop and jazz standards, which was highly successful, initially spending 95 weeks on the Billboard charts and garnering five Grammy Awards. Wanewright said the following of his appreciation for the album during that turbulent time in American history: Somehow that album, no matter how dark things seemed, made everything brighten. You never feel that she didn’t believe every word of every song she ever sang. He said the album reminded him of how great the US used to be. He also said that the War on Terrorism and invasion of Iraq caused him to become ‘traumatized and disillusioned with anything American’ and that he was reminded of how ‘great’ the U.S. was before 9/11.
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