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Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club (Deluxe Edition)
Artist:
Sheryl Crow
Review:
Before she became the omnipresent babe at grizzled-rock-star
reunions, Sheryl Crow was a Missouri gal with a big voice, a
mutable country-rock countenance and a lust for pop hooks. The
loping "Leaving Las Vegas" launched her eclectic Grammy-sweeping
1993 debut, which also had L.A. folk funk, piano-bar blues, even a
Dylan-cum-R.E.M. "rap" ("The Na-Na Song"). The bonus disc doesn't
exhume her never-released 1992 album (try the Internet), but it has
worthy takes on Eric Carmen's 1975 power ballad...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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Leona Lewis - Echo
Artist:
Leona Lewis
Review:
Call Leona Lewis a diva of the old-fashioned variety: a singer
who uses her rafter-rattling voice to dramatize female suffering.
On her second album, the U.K. belter delivers synth arrangements
that arc skyward, toward Simon Cowell's mountaintop redoubt. Lewis
is technically flawless, but behind lyrics about "the scars on my
heart," there's little personality — you miss a little of
Mariah and Whitney's supersize ego.
Rating:
2.5 Stars
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Paul McCartney - Good Evening New York City
Artist:
Paul McCartney
Review:
Forty-four years after the Beatles first played Shea Stadium,
Paul McCartney returned to Queens to play the first concert at Citi
Field. With an exceptionally well-preserved voice, Macca plows
through Beatles and Wings hits, plus solo gems. This is McCartney's
sixth live album since 1990 — most with a nearly identical
version of "Hey Jude" and "Live and Let Die." Skip to a blazing
version of "Day Tripper," which hadn't been touched since the
1960s. Best is "A Day in the Life," featur...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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