About a week or two ago, Inara George and Greg Kurstin, the duo better known as The Bird and the Bee, officially released their third full length album, entitled “Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates”. I may be biased because I have gotten to know Inara over the past year or so and they are easily one of my favorite groups, but for me the album was exactly what I was expecting and then some. I had first learned they were working on the cover album in February of last year when I heard them play “I Can’t Go For That” live on several occasions, and absolutely fell in love with what they had done with the song. The album, like this song, still retains the lyrical and compositional dignity that makes Hall & Oates great, however Greg does such an incredible job adding modern musical elements and reinventing each track that they have truly made the works their own; not to mention the endearingly sweet yet fearless vocals Inara always provides that draw me to love her voice so much. If you love Hall & Oates like I do or have heard any music by The Bird and the Bee in the past, I highly recommend looking into this fantastic cover album, especially “I Can’t Go For That”, “Rich Girl”, and “Heard It On The Radio”.
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