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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | unexpected Pretenders sighting/Amy Allison |
| Date | Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:16:38 -0400 |
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Today's edition of the comic strip Baldo -- the one about the Latino
teenager who lives with his traditionalist father and aunt -- has a line
from the Pretenders' "Talk of the Town" in the dialogue, and it's just odd
enough a couplet ("It's hard to live by the rules/I never could and still
never do") that it has to have come from the song. That's just not a place
I would expect to see a line from a Pretenders song!
Unfortunately, I'm learning that it pays to keep up with your eMusic queue:
I just finished listening to NO-FRILLS FRIEND by the New York-based
alt-country singer Amy Allison (the daughter of my beloved Mose Allison),
and I'm kicking myself for missing out on a chance to see her open for
Laura Cantrell just last weekend. Musically, the album is your basic
mostly acoustic alt-country, but Allison has this incredibly whiny, nasal
voice that I'm finding just absolutely enchanting. She saounds pretty much
exactly like a female Jimmie Dale Gilmore, no bad thing in my book.
Scottish pop fans take note: the album was produced by David Scott of the
Pearlfishers.
S
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