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2010-01-17
Chicago-based Daphne Wells has a soulful, bouncy narrative style of delivering a tune that has some pegging her as a female Jack Johnson. I pick up some Laura Love vibes in the music; there's careful attention to the instruments providing a percussive backbeat to the song-stories she is telling. The set starts off with a roar on "Everybody Else," settles into the solid folk-rocker "Bluff" and then she's off to the races. In addition to these openers, I particularly liked "Swirl" and "Yellow Dress" for their spot-on match of lyric and music. Not a clinker in the bunch, a fresh new talent with spunk and style. F-Soul 01/10 Michael J.
MARTHA BERNER
This Side of Yesterday
CLOTHESLINE REVIVAL
They Came From Somewhere
MILLION SELLERS
Music City USA and Other Ghost Stories
Song of the Lakes
Poets Say
CAT POWER
The Greatest
Eef Barzelay
Rocket Science Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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