Meet Duffy

Since it's YouTube posting Saturday (well, okay, Sunday now I just realized), I wanted to share a video by Duffy, the Welsh singer/songwriter who's album, Rockferry, has been a huge hit in the UK and is now landing on our shores. She's Dusty Springfield with a little Lulu thrown in and a whole heapin' help of Motown and what the Brits call Northern Soul. This album has been on constant rotation at my apartment while I've been writing and editing some new work. The lush, wall-of-sound warps you back to 1965 in an instant, yet it's modern at the same time. This song is Warwick Avenue (named for one of the Underground stations in London) and this simple, elegant video is brilliant.

Comments

[Michael Gushue]

Wow, Collin, great find, great song. I love the way the singing moves from outside to inside her. It's quite a torch song. I'll be saving up for this one.