Word: songstress
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Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag, and you get Patricia Barber, whose throaty, come-hither vocals and coolly incisive piano are displayed to devastating effect on her first all-standards album. Nightclub is clearly designed to prove that the cerebral Chicago songstress can be more than just a lesbian cult figure, and it succeeds spectacularly: Barber's hushed, sensuous version of Bye Bye Blackbird hasn't been bettered since Miles Davis last took the old standby out for a spin...
...surface, the evolution of the artists suggest two immiscible types of music. In the 12 years since her departure from the '80s new wave band 'Til Tuesday, Mann has matured from a big-haired rock star to a subtle, incisive songstress. Even "Voices Carry," the song that catapulted 'Til Tuesday into heavy rotation on MTV, sounded more meditative in its current incarnation, with Mann giving more weight to the nuances of the vocals rather than biting off the edges of the words with the attitude she embraced...