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Download press release for album "Something Irresistible: Songs of Fran Landesman + Simon Wallace" in PDF format.
Download press release for June 21, 2010 show in San Francisco in Word or PDF format.
Previews and Reviews
“The excellent cabaret/jazz singer is foremost a sensitive interpreter of lyrics. A true conservator of the Great American Songbook, she’s even added to the pool by championing the recent songs of legendary lyricist Fran Landesman.” —The Boston Globe
Four stars/excellent. “…the result is this rather fine, exquisitely programmed 15-song collection, Something Irresistible: Songs of Fran Landesman + Simon Wallace. From the most heartfelt balladry (‘Save the Photographs’) to the breeziest of up-tempo songs (‘In A New York Minute’) to the sly humour of ‘Hyde Side Blues’ and ‘Did We Have Any Fun?’, these witty, urbane and touching songs exert a powerful hold. Metcalf’s central triptych of ‘Down’, ‘Scars’ and the salutary caught-with-your-pants-down tale of ‘Feet Do Your Stuff’ … is outstanding.” —Jazzwise (U.K.’s best-selling jazz magazine)
“Well they (Fran’s new songs) have at least one new champion called Shepley Metcalf who may sound like a village in Somerset but actually comes from Boston and has recorded a CD of Landesman/Wallace songs titled Something Irresistible. In cabaret she has a complete show on the same theme and it’s been doing well, and far away from Boston too. (Shepley) may end up as America’s leading salesperson for the Landesman/Wallace songs…” —Russell Davies Song Show, BBC Radio 2, August 21, 2011, a tribute program to Fran Landesman. Davies played ‘It’s Cool to be Cool’ from Shepley’s album.
“…a menu well-worth sampling and savoring… small treasures to savor” —Talkin’ Broadway
“…a trove of should-be standards that aren’t worn out. And Metcalf makes the most of these treasures with her horn-like alto and swinging attack.” —The Boston Herald
“Shepley does a wonderful job especially on ballads, “What Love Knows” and “Down”. The more we listened, the more we enjoyed it!” —D. Oscar Groomes, O’s Place Jazz Magazine
“…lyricist Fran Landesman has not been resting on her laurels… she has a whole new songbook of urbane, literate, classic American songbook-type numbers of the type that don’t get written much anymore.” —The Boston Phoenix
Goings On About Town
Metropolitan Room—Oct. 24
The Boston-based singer Shepley Metcalf champions the work of Fran Landesman, a lyricist best known for the imperishable gems “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” and “The Ballad of the Sad Young Men.” — The New Yorker
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