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Ten intriguing tracks found in the week’s listening
By Elysa Gardner
November 3, 2014
He’s Sure the Boy I Love, Bette Midler and Darlene Love
Two legends bring girlish joy and womanly wit to the Crystals gem, featured on Midler’s thoroughly charming It’s The Girls.
Ware’s airy but supple soprano is by turns sultry and nakedly vulnerable on this spare, spacious slow-burner from Devotion.
Innocence, Electric Youth
The synth duo conjures an eerie mix of purity and foreboding on this pounding, soaring number from Innerworld.
Red Cups Up, Joey Sommerville
The soul-jazz trumpeter and friends get the funk out on this sly, exuberant track from the ironically titled Overnight Sensation.
I Cover the Waterfront, Annie Lennox
Lennox lends her shivery warmth and easy elegance, and a beautifully understated melancholy, to the standard, included on Nostalgia.
I Remember You, Hilary Kole
Kole wields her creamy, dreamy voice with simple understated bliss on this playful reading of the Johnny Mercer classic, on A Self-Portrait.
Only the Young, Cynthia Felton
Felton’s silvery vocals caress a gorgeously wistful arrangement on Cynthia Felton Sings The Nancy Wilson Classics: Save Your Love For Me.
Songbird, Anna Wilson
Wilson rediscovers the aching purity of Christine McVie‘s enduring ballad, among other tunes, on Jazzbird/Songbird.
It’s still tough to resist this tender showcase for the late singer/songwriter’s limpid tenor, now available on All Of My Memories: The John Denver Collection.
Joy to the World, Earth, Wind & Fire
Celebrate Christmas – or anything – early, with the eternally groovy group, whose Holiday has already arrived
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