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LA Cowboy: The Big Pitch
by Richard J Salvucci
There is, one supposes, a niche for most everything, although some tastes are surely acquired. Admittedly, a kind of epistolary recording that seems to combine “To Live and Die in LA" with Lady Millea's I Don't Mind Missing You (Reconcile, 2021) is a bit difficult to characterize. Some writers have called this a sort of retro pre-swing recording, lyrics, music and story somehow grounded in the 1920s. That may well be, although the hook is really the chance to hear ...
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by Richard J Salvucci
The publicist's materials accompanying this release characterize newcomer Lady Millea as something “akin to 'Sarah Vaughn meets Karen Carpenter.'" Ok. For the record, Lady Millea was indeed a pleasant surprise, if not exactly a revelation on that level. She sings a selection of originals by J. Frederick Millea, aka “L.A.Cowboy." She brings very much in mind the singers you could expect to hear at a club like The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA in the 1960s and 1970s. Since ...
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