Billed as a tribute to the artists who have influenced her over the years, Jukebox s tracklist would make daunting reading for any muso-for-hire. James Brown, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan all get the CP treatment, as do Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. Jukebo
Billed as a tribute to the artists who have influenced her over the years, Jukebox's tracklist would make daunting reading for any muso-for-hire.
James Brown, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan all get the CP treatment, as do Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. Jukebox is an album of successful conflicts.
Draping her breathy, alluring-yet-innocent vocals over a simultaneously decadent and musically frugal reinterpretation of Sinatra's New York, New York would be a case in point.
Contributions from her band are well-judged and never overpowering, while she sings as if she couldn't care whether people compare her excellent takes with the originals - thereby, conversely, stamping her own identity all over them. 4/5
