Sunday, July 20, 2008

Music painting

Music painting
Nude painting
reintroducing the lost art of the troubadour to a large audience. Cool, poised and confident on stage, she was just as adept at spinning yarns as she was strumming narrative tales like the epic "Queen and the Solider" or the beautiful, wistful "Gypsy."Vega mixed up the set very well, drawing on all five of her studio albums, as well as "Rosemary" and "Left of Center," the two previously unreleased songs on her best of collection, Tried and True. The highlights of her older selections were the soft "In Liverpool"; the sultry, jazzy "Caramel"; the a capella "Tom's Diner"; the menacing, hand-clap-and-bass-driven "Room Off the Street"; the aggressive, guitar-fueled "When Heroes Go Down"; and, of course, "Luka." Vega and Vecsiglia performed five other new songs, ranging from the light "Solitaire," seemingly literally about playing the card game, to the edgy "Widow's Walk." It was hard to miss the sharp lyrics of the latter, which begins

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