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Album Review

Joe Beck & Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings

Read "Golden Earrings" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 24, 2009

The duet program Golden Earrings is Laura Theodore's ode to Peggy Lee's standard-setting duets with her husband, guitarist and co-composer Dave Barbour. Subsequent circumstances have added a sadder tribute to Theodore's instrumental partner, guitarist Joe Beck, who recorded his final work on Golden Earrings before he succumbed to cancer in July 2008.

Tribute offerings can be tricky propositions. If you stay too close to the originals, critics say that you're simply “aping" them; change them too much and critics complain ...

Album Review

Laura Theodore: What the World Needs Now Is Love

Read "What the World Needs Now Is Love" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 14, 2003

The world may need love now, but it also needs more original artists like Laura Theodore. The vocalist opens her new CD with a smoldering and sultry “Some of My Best Friends Are The Blues"... and the band gets the blues, too, with an R&B atmosphere and a stinging muted trumpet solo followed by the salacious growl of tenor sax.

Laura Theodore explores her full four octave range on this outing, sometimes on the same song, and she also explores ...