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May 11, 2006
KT Tunstall @ The Music Box: May 9, 2006
Before KT Tunstall started receiving serious airplay from commercial adult contemporary stations or having her songs covered by American Idol contestants, she was the topic of conversation among underground hipsters. The British chantreuse released her "Eye to the Telescope" album in the United States earlier this year, and it quickly flew up the charts of Triple A radio, and earned her critical acclaim. Vocally, KT sounds much like Bonnie Raitt, but she's got a pop style and sensibility all her own. With all this "buzz" about her, it's easy to see why she packed The Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theatre Tuesday night, but not easy to see why her production manager felt it necessary to have lighting that distracted from, rather than enhanced her performance. Although it took about twenty minutes for KT to really get into her show, once she had it going, she was unstoppable, save for the cliched move of the artist to take over for the drummer at the end of her show. Seems that an artist as talented as KT Tunstall would be beyond that.
Posted by darlin at May 11, 2006 1:38 PM
