{"id":7550,"date":"2006-04-07T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2015-04-29T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:21:10","slug":"music-review-corinne-bailey-rae-at-shepherds-bush-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=7550","title":{"rendered":"MUSIC REVIEW: Corinne Bailey Rae at Shepherds Bush Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/corinne-bailey-rae.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7552\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/corinne-bailey-rae.jpg\" alt=\"Corinne Bailey Rae Play Shepherds Bush Empire\" width=\"594\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/corinne-bailey-rae.jpg 594w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/corinne-bailey-rae-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 England\u2019s biggest voices come in small packages and in a swinging set at the Shepherds Bush Empire on April 5 , Corinne Bailey Rae showed that while her debut album, a hit in the U.K., is easy listening, she can easily fill the room and occupy the imagination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Corinne_Bailey_Rae_album.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7553\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Corinne_Bailey_Rae_album.png\" alt=\"Corinne_Bailey_Rae_(album)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Corinne_Bailey_Rae_album.png 300w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Corinne_Bailey_Rae_album-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A slight figure in a simple white dress, Rae nonetheless commands the stage whether standing at the microphone or sitting on a stool playing guitar. Confident and assured, she wrapped her crisp cadences and sensuous phrasing around a selection of ballads and lively songs that mostly she co-wrote. Backed by a seven-piece outfit with three horns, two guitars, a keyboard player and a percussionist, with two backup singers for some very sweet harmonies, Rae delivered an 11-song set plus two encores, to cover everything on her EMI album.<\/p>\n<p>She kicked off with the engaging &#8220;Call Me When You Get This\u201d and moved through some haunting ballads including &#8220;Breathless,&#8221; &#8220;Enchantment&#8221; and &#8220;Like a Star\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rae didn&#8217;t talk much except to thank the audience for being there and for buying her records but, as she introduced an insightful treatment of Led Zeppelin&#8217;s &#8220;Since I&#8217;ve Been Loving You,&#8221; she did offer a reminder that she&#8217;d once been in a heavy rock band named Helen.<\/p>\n<p>Rae said she likes to write honest songs and aside from their appealing melodies, her tunes stand out with intelligent and clich\u00e9-free lyrics. Even \u201cButterfly\u201d, a pretty song about growing up that she dedicated to her mother, was free of syrup.<\/p>\n<p>A packed crowd responded to Rae&#8217;s warmth and cleverly adventurous voice so that by the time she went into her U.K. hit single &#8220;Put Your Records On\u201d, they were up and dancing.<\/p>\n<p>This review appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett LONDON \u2013 England\u2019s biggest voices come in small packages and in a swinging set at the Shepherds Bush Empire on April 5 , Corinne Bailey Rae showed that while her debut album, a hit in the U.K., &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=7550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[3725,3726,1083],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-reviews","tag-corinne-bailey-rae","tag-emi","tag-shepherds-bush-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}