New cd alert!

Yes. I still buy them as opposed to downloading them.

Anyway. A few weeks ago I heard a voice on KRCL that just knocked me flat--the artist was Adele, this 22-year-old British girl, who has the smokiest bluest voice I've heard in a long, long time. LOVE it. She reminds me of both Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse (think of Amy's voice and not her visuals, okay, and you'll realize this is a huge compliment). What is it with these white female Brits who do soul like nobody's business?

So I trotted right out and bought ADELE 21. And, lo, I have NOT been sorry.

A holiday recommendation for you . . .

because I have your back this Christmas.

Anyhoo! I just bought myself (on impulse!) the new Annie Lennox Christmas cd because I do love me some Annie with her strange and wonderful voice that runs the gamut from torchy to lilting to vaguely sinister. And all of those vocal qualities are on display in her new collection of traditional carols. There's a rough beauty about her arrangements, amplified by an African children's choir singing backup. Really, it's just a great cd.