2007-01-12
Folk/pop songstress Erin McKeown delivers a great, out-of-leftfield set of jazz standards with a four-piece combo (guitar, keyboards, bass, drums). What makes this work is her hip delivery of the lyrics and some excellently obscure song choices to go along with more recognizable tunes. You get Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer here, but you also get the organ-buzz of the title track, an unexpected reading of "Paper Moon" and the gems "I was a Little Too Lonely" and "Rhode Island is Famous for You" (my favorite of the set). An "A" for her jazz music thesis. 01/07 MJVD J-RootsLiz Carroll & John Doyle
In Play
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS
Fork In The Road
Grant Peeples And The Peeples Republik
A Congress of Treasons
Various Artists
Our Side of Town: A Red House Records 25th Anniversary Collection
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass : Tribute to 1946 and 1947
JAKE ARMERDING
Walking on the World
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