Defiant
Beth Hart has to be considered an elite female vocalist –
there is such an immediate sense of power and clarity when she sings,
completely devoid of affectation, and brimming with a texture that can both
caress and catapult depending on the level of touch and feel she is generating.
The self-penned songs on this album are gospel, blues and
R&B infused, and there is in her vocal warble the definite tremble of Buffy
Saint Marie invariably turbo-boosted by Hart’s Rock rocket singing injectors. That
range is exemplified in St Teresa
where her calmer tone [never softer
as a definer] gives us that tremulous quality, accompanied by sweet
harmonising, and on opener Might As Well
Smile which is a soulful and sassy declaration of hope and defiant
optimism, pumped up by horns and her voice quite joyous in its repetition of
the chorus. Her rasping roar gets a wonderful further rage of defiance in the
lovefight narrated in Tell Her You Belong
to Me – wow!
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