“Massachusetts” is from forthcoming duets album
Rita Wilson has shared “Massachusetts,” her captivating duet with Tony and GRAMMY-Award winning Leslie Odom Jr. “Massachusetts” is the third new song to be unveiled from her forthcoming anticipated new superstar duets album, Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets.
For the majestic rendition of The Bee Gees “Massachusetts” Wilson and album GRAMMY-Award winning co-producer Matt Rollings created an exuberant and immaculately orchestrated treatment of the song complete with soaring strings and a lush arrangement. The blending of Wilson’s and Odom Jr’s moving harmonies brings a new richness to the song, lovingly delivered as an evocative duet.
“The Bee Gees’ songs are so beautiful, and I had never heard ‘Massachusetts’ as a duet,” Wilson shares. “I like the idea that these lovers had to split up for a while, go their own ways, and then eventually come back home to Massachusetts.”
The project sees Wilson return to exploring her gift as an interpretive singer, as she revisits the songs that made her fall in love with music. A set of true modern standards from the Seventies, Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets sees Wilson singing alongside giants spanning pop, country and rock including Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Jackson Browne, Tim McGraw, Elvis Costello, Keith Urban, Josh Groban, Vince Gill and Jimmie Allen, illustrating the high regard in which she is held by her peers.
The first single to be unveiled from the album was Fleetwood Mac’s classic “Songbird” with Josh Groban. The pair performed the song live on stage at New York City’s famed Radio City Music Hall earlier this year. The song was followed with “Let It Be” with Jackson Browne.
Wilson has established herself as a prolific, authentic, and widely admired singer/songwriter who has fully immersed herself in her passion for music. She’s released four studio albums, a series of three inter-connected EP’s entitled Trilogy, and a steady flow of singles includes the moving, “Everybody Cries,” from the film The Outpost, which won the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Outstanding Song for Independent Film. She has performed on some of the world’s greatest stages including the Grand Ole Opry, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Ryman and the Sydney Opera House, to name a few. Now a festival fixture, she has appeared at Stagecoach, Tortuga and CMA Fest among many others.
