David Driver:The Scott Walker Songbook with special guest Julia Greenberg: The Dory Previn Songbook
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WALKER AND PREVIN: The perfect double bill that never was...until now. A recent review of a Dory Previn compilation declares “if you are unfamiliar with Previn, it may be best perhaps, to think of her as the female equivalent of Scott Walker.”
David Driver sings the songs of Scott Walker, easily the most respected and least known artist of his generation. The enigmatic and influential subject of the documentary film 30 Century Man, Walker is ripe for re-discovery– and downtown chanteur David Driver (seen alongside Deborah Harry and Elvis Costello in Roy Nathanson's Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill, and as a regular vocalist with the Losers' Lounge) is the singer for the job. Walker's gritty glam lyrics, passionate crooning and Dada arrangements are late-twentieth-century music's road not taken; the streetwise luster and gravity of Driver's voice make him uniquely qualified to resurrect these urban song-scapes.....
Julia Greenberg sings the uncompromisingly neurotic, surreal, sexual and hauntingly honest songs of Dory Previn. An Oscar® and Emmy® winning lyricist who released seven critically acclaimed albums after the age of 40....
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David sang this Bacharach/Costello collaboration at the recent Losers Lounge tribute to Burt and it was one of the most electrifying performances I've ever witnessed, on a level with discovering Clay Hammond or Scott Walker for the first time.
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