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Erin Bode is a young jazz vocalist. I can't wait to hear what she'll
sound like in a few years, when she (and we) can look back on this
album and think about how far she's come.
The problem isn't with Erin's voice, which is sweet and pure and
fine. No, the problem's her delivery. Which isn't bad; it's just
kind of... uninspired. Take her cover of Cyndi Lauper's
Time
After Time. I'm convinced that she based it on
Eva
Cassidy's version. But Ms. Cassidy took the song to places
Ms. Bode can't imagine; she made it her own. And I feel the same way
about
Here,
There and Everywhere. I have an import CD on which
Sissel
Kyrkjebo reinvents it. Ms. Bode just sings.
It's not that Don't Take Your Time is bad or unpleasant. It
just could have been so much more. And maybe one day it will be.
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