Another cover that made me fall in love with a music artist I'd not heard previously. The year is 1995. I had been of Tom Waits for a couple of decades at this point. I could never have imagined someone doing his music justice as a cover.
Then along came Temptation by Holly Cole and her trio. An entire album of Tom Waits songs. In fact I'll have to post 2 videos from this album. She manages to maintain all the dreamy quirkiness of Tom Waits with a silky smooth breathy voice that will take you to another dimension if you close your eyes and let her. So enjoy this trip with a pair old back catalog classics.
A song to appeal to all adults. Holly Cole and her Trio first crossed my expanding auditory orbit when she released a jazz cover album of Tom Waits songs titled TEMPTATION. From that point on I said, “I need to know more about this amazing song stylist.”
CHRISTMAS BLUES was the title track of her very first recorded release a few years before she decided to cover Tom Waits. Who releases their first album as a Christmas album? LOL . Anyway it has become a standard and was also found on the JAZZ TO THE WORLD album of various jazz performers interpreting some of their favorite holiday songs.
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