Thanks for mentioning Phoebe Snow as I think her voice is, to quote Ella "molasses, molasses"..
However, my intro to Phoebe Snow is this album she released in the 80s called SOMETHING REAL. I bought that on tape and I was blown away by that multi-octave voice that could go moaning low to tinkling highs and back again! Even if the album had some cringe-inducing cuts like "Best of My Love" (but her awesome high Cs are still musical in its soprano edge), there are also gems like the title cut, and "Touch Your Soul". I got her old album and was also mesmerized by the quietude and simplicity of "Never Letting Go" (a Stephen Bishop original, yes?) as well as "Poetry Man". Lately in one Spyro Gyra album (c.1980s) she sang "thoughtful and thankful" and that majestic voice booms and touches in a shapely vibrato that trite lyrics of that song. The two contemporary singers who sound like he is Toni Childs and Alana Davis. Joseph in Manila (with incipient headache) > In a message dated 12/29/2002 8:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> But I love "It Looks Like Snow" > > Hey - me too, especially "Stand Up On the Rock"! It's just one of those > songs that make you FEEL good, y'know? > > Of course Phoebe does a bang-up version of "A Case of You", and her live > take on "At Last" (from Rock & Soul Revue) is SO fecking unbelievable, > puts poor Joni's BSN take to shame. > > Bob > > NP: Rachel Z Trio, "Lakota"
