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Matt Barber: The Song Is You

by Jack Bowers
May 25, 2023

Matt Barber is a pretty good singer: pleasant voice, decent range, fair sense of swing, healthy respect for a lyric. On his seventh album, The Song Is You, Barber has chosen to revisit a number of evergreens from the Great American Songbook and placed himself in a variety of musical settings designed to enhance the experience. A couple of those songs ("Oh! Look at Me Now," “You Make Me Feel So Young") were closely associated with the ...