Wendy Newcomer - Going Til You're Gone

With influences ranging from Emmylou Harris and Karen Carpenter to Elvis Costello and the Rolling Stones, her wondrously versatile alto is as comfortable wailing on a Tom Petty rocker as on a bluegrass barn-burner, or softly caressing every ounce of heartfelt emotion from the gentle country waltzes Wendy loves so dearly. Need proof? Slide her new Wendy Newcomer CD into your player...and prepare to be entranced.


The tone of the record is set with the opening strains of "Going Til You're Gone," whose infectious driving rhythm, great melody and understated back porch production offer the perfect vehicle to showcase the power and tasteful nuances of Wendy's singing. And, throughout the excellent collection of tunes, she achieves the harder-than-it-sounds task of establishing and maintaining her own identity without repeating herself. Wendy truly is a remarkably versatile singer, equally convincing on her own "Too Much Vodka," a rollicking morning-after exploration of what may—or may not—have happened the night before (That morning sun shines like a knife in my eye/My shirt's on backwards, and I wish I knew why), as on the stunningly beautiful "Killing the Blues," a song Wendy still has a hard time singing without crying.

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