SONG OF THE DAY [#347]

'all the times i cried' | sharleen spiteri

while duffy, candie payne, and amy winehouse were playing barbies and hopscotch, sharleen spiteri was already mastering blue-eyed  soul with her band texas. [ok, ok,  i know she has brown eyes. work with me, people.]

i really, really, really loved texas.  they were hugely underrated and nearly broke through in the US a few times in the mid-to-late nineties with a couple of minor hits including 'say what you want.'  what a great song that was.  for sure.  i was fully anticipating a texas-sized texas invasion.  but instead it was more like a little-island-at-the-tip-of-alaska-almost-in-russia sized invasion.  oh well, not everyone can be a winner.  i wish they had, though. that'd have swell.

i kind of lost track of them after 'the hush,' but i recently found out that sharleen was about to release a solo album called 'melody.'  very good news indeed.   well, i got to listen to it and it's very mighty and very, very excellent.  it dropped in the uk on july 14. [of course, no US release date yet, but stay tuned.]  i can see all the hipster kids slamming it already for being a duffy knockoff, but listen up hipster kids: sharleen is the godmother [ok, dusty is the godmother, but you know what i'm sayin'].  duffy, candie and amy should be bowing down before her.

welcome back, sharleen.  i missed you [and not just 'cos you're a stone cold foxy lady with stone cold foxy glaswegian accent].

→ sharleen spiteri: all the times i cried | video
→ sharleen spiteri: don't keep me waiting
→ texas: say what you want | video
→ texas: black eyed boy | video
→ texas: put your arms around me | video