Title: A bit of a dissapointment
Review: After reading a rave review of her live performance, and hearing that Sugar Pie is Natalie Merchant's favorite vocalist, I thought I'd give this disk a whirl. What I found was a voice past it's prime, and some spectacularly bad song selections - some clearly out of her range, others that would sound awful sung by choirs of angels, Ray Charles, Kiri Te Kanawa, or any other singer living or dead. HOWEVER, there is one absolutely essential cut on this outing, and that's "I wanna Know". This version is dead, dead, dead on. The woman who sings it is not just interested in knowing, she's entitled to, in a cool, firm, steely way. I'd almost buy more of Sugar Pie, in spite of the dissapointment of the other cuts, just to look for more of THAT.
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