We are attending the Avett Brothers concert at Meadowbrook this weekend. Looking forward to that show a great deal. Finding out this week that Nicole Atkins, someone of whom I had never heard was the opening act I decided to Spotify her. For me Spotify is soon becoming a verb to match the noun just as Google is.
Atkins is a good singer. She is not a rocker and moves somewhere between Amy Winehouse, Jessica Lea Mayfield with perhaps a touch of Florence as well.
I chose to listen to her album from 2007 as Spotify's ratings have more of her top rated songs on that album.
The album gets better with each listening with songs such as Maybe Tonight, The Way It Is and Love Surreal being songs you could easily hear on any number of the channels on XM. The most winning songs on the album to me are the title track a dreamy tale of city life and the enchanting Cool Enough.
I have a hard time placing the influences but it is clear that she fits in a niche that has become quite popular. Cool Enough is a great song but like the whole album there is nothing surely something to remember. She is a good performer, a good singer but yet now she is just one of many doing this act.
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