Visions of Love is an album by Peter Ostroushko

Peter Ostroushko

Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.-Background and career:Of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis...

, released in 1997. It is the second of the three albums Ostroushko calls his "heartland trilogy" — Heart of the Heartland, Pilgrims on the Heart Road, and Sacred Heart.

Guests include Prudence Johnson

Prudence Johnson

Prudence Johnson is an American jazz and folk vocalist.-Biography:Prudence Johnson grew up in a musical family in Moose Lake, Minnesota. In the early 1970s, Prudence was a co-founder with Tim Sparks of the vocal jazz group Rio Nido...

, Butch Thompson

Butch Thompson

Butch Thompson is an American jazz pianist and clarinetist best known for his ragtime and stride performances....

 and Bobby McFerrin

Bobby McFerrin

Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...

.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic William Ruhlman complimented the instrumental work, but wrote that in contrast to Ostroushko's previous albums, this album is "...a collection of songs with vocals, songs that treat a number of personal and political issues of obvious importance to the musician and which he treats at length... Ostroushko is as determined to display his instrumental dexterity on guitar and mandolin as he is to explore the lyrical subject matter... All of this makes for an ambitious, seriously intended album that sometimes comes off as preachy and self-important, sincere as it may be."

Track listing

All songs by Peter Ostroushko.

1. "Miracle" – 6:50
2. "Mandela" – 8:34
3. "Twilight of Our Years" – 6:00
4. "My People" – 6:08
5. "Down on the Plain of Reeds" – 9:30
6. "Once Again" – 6:30
7. "I'm So Glad You Came into My Life" – 6:30
8. "You Don't Know What Lonely Is" – 6:47
9. "Baby, Bring Your Sweet Lovin' to Me" – 6:44
10. "Like Memories Often Do" – 7:15

Personnel

• Peter Ostroushko – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
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  , mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
  
• Prudence Johnson
  Prudence Johnson
  Prudence Johnson is an American jazz and folk vocalist.-Biography:Prudence Johnson grew up in a musical family in Moose Lake, Minnesota. In the early 1970s, Prudence was a co-founder with Tim Sparks of the vocal jazz group Rio Nido...
  
   – vocals
• Bobby McFerrin
  Bobby McFerrin
  Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
  
   – vocals
• Richard Dworsky
  Richard Dworsky
  Richard A. Dworsky is a pianist, a composer, and appears weekly on the A Prairie Home Companion public radio variety show from American Public Media as the resident pianist and band leader...
  
   – piano
  Piano
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  , Hammond organ
• Jim Anton – bass
• Dean Magraw – acoustic and electric guitar, slide guitar
• Gordon Johnson – bass, double bass
• Gordon Knudtson – drums
  Drum kit
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• Bruce Kurnow – harmonica
  Harmonica
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• Butch Thompson
  Butch Thompson
  Butch Thompson is an American jazz pianist and clarinetist best known for his ragtime and stride performances....
  
   – clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  
• Bruce Allard Trumpet
• Marc Anderson – percussion
• Diane Tremaine – cello
  Cello
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• Ed Volker – piano
• Leslie Ball – vocals
• Jearlyn Steele Battle – vocals
• Kathleen Bradford – vocals
• Pat Frederick – vocals
• Marge Ostroushko – vocals
• Karen Paurus – vocals
• Robert Robinson – vocals

Production notes

• Produced and mixed by Peter Ostroushko
• Executive Producer – Eric Peltoniemi
• Craig Thorson – assistant Engineer
• Gus Gustafson, Dan Corrigan – photography
• Tom Mudge – engineer, mixing
• Lisa Ekström – design