Marian Call somehow combines the jazz vocals chops of Patricia Barber with the folksy wisdom of Dar Williams on her new record. She has a unique perspective on the world partly because of her remote location (Alaska) but also simply because of her "fierce" attitude towards life. That brings us to her new double album called Something Fierce . First of all releasing a double album is fierce enough but these songs have a bite to them that reinforces the album title. I've linked to one of the more folkier numbers on [...]
Patricia Barber - The Beat Goes On* Photo by jolyn27
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Today is the shortest day of the year. Winter is here… "time to find me a bear".* (Better download these songs before Blogger deletes this post.) Some of these songs were first posted here . Some new ones are added to the list. In no particular order Ethan Lipton ∞ Winter * Tori Amos ∞ Winter Bebel Gelberto ∞ Winter Caroline ∞ Winter Patricia Barber ∞ Winter [...]
Why it's significant: Leave it to the intrepid Patricia Barber to take on so well-worn a songbook as Cole Porter 's with such smoldering originality. Of course, for 15 years now, Barber has been something of an Ella Fitzgerald meets the madwoman-in-the-attic, a sheen of peerless respectability masking her uncompromising taste for the respectfully subversive. With 2006's seminal Mythologies , Barber took the Guggenheim and ran with it, planting one foot in Ovid and the other in Harlem . Here, her unflappable taste for danger [...]
De vrolijke en uitnodigende albumcover van Patricia Barbers Mythologieshaalde mij over om dit laatste album van de Amerikaanse jazz-zangeres eens aandachtig te gaan beluisteren. In zoverre is Mythologies nog niettegengevallen, maar het is toch ook niet helemaal geworden van wat ik ervan had gehoopt. Over de gehele lijn gezien kleurt Barber aardig bin-nen de lijntjes en wordt het dan ook nooit ech...
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