2005-03-27
Vance's seventh recording delivers more of his high-timbre folk songs, occasionally touched either a country-twang or a jazz-inflected foundation. Sometimes his vocal delivery has been described as part Roy Orbison, part Nat King Cole -- and that's pretty accurate. Check out his Roy-like rendition of "Ten Thousand Skies" or his Nat-like vocal on "Unforgivable." Other interesting cuts are the atypical reaction to a military death notice in "That Front Porch Song" and the off-beat holding-the-world-hostage song "I've Got a Plane" (complete with scat-singing finale).Adrienne Young & Little Sadie
The Art of Virtue
LOUISA BRANSCOMB
I'll Take Love from the pen of Louisa Branscomb
THE INDIGO GIRLS
Poseidon and the Bitter Bug
LIZ LONGLEY
Hot Loose Wire
Evie Ladin Band
Jump The Fire
REED FOEHL
Stoned Beautiful
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