Sunday, 01 August 2010




You haven’t heard this one before: The former lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs walks into her record label with a double CD consisting her musical adaptations of children’s poetry and nursery rhymes. Poetry is full of punch lines. Poetry is full of punch lines. Merchant’s new “Leave Your Sleep” title comes from a Mother Goose rhyme. And the “Calico Pie” of nonsensical 19th century English poet Edward Lear is turned inside out to become  rollicking folk jig. Ogden Nash’s “Adventures of Isabel”...
Full Story: Chicago Sun-Times



 

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