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).BIG LEG EMMA
The Color Of Wind
EILEN JEWELL
QUEEN OF THE MINOR KEY
Michael Franti
Songs from the Front Porch
HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH
HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH
STING
Songs from the Labyrinth
The Last Town Chorus
Wire Waltz
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