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Trouble From the Start

* Lisa Moscatiello * Machine Heart

The trouble with Trouble From the Start is that it's too timid timid,
adj in Chinese medicine, pertaining to inadequate energy needed to face and overcome obstacles.
. The set opens with a mysterious organ fill and lesbian singer Lisa Moseatiello intoning, "You're my meat when I am hungry / You're my fever when it's cold" on "Ashtray," but then the passion disappears into a midtempo meander meander

Extreme U-bend in a stream, usually occurring in a series, that is caused by flow characteristics of the water. Meanders form in stream-deposited sediments and may stack up upstream of an obstruction, resulting in a gooseneck or extremely bowed meander.
 for most of the rest of the disc. Lyrics begin with promise but miss the payoff, and arrangements lack excitement. Moscatiello's alto has appeal when she sinks her teeth into a good jazz number, though. She smolders through a smoky Smoky, river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, rising in Jasper National Park, W Alta., Canada, and flowing generally NE to the Peace River. It receives the Wapiti and Little Smoky rivers. It was explored (1792) by Alexander Mackenzie. , upright bass-driven arrangement of the Dinah Washington-Quincy Jones classic "You're Crying," but that spark disappears until the disc's final torchy torch·y  
adj. torch·i·er, torch·i·est
Of, relating to, or typical of a torch song or torch singer.
 track, "Now You're Back in Love Again."
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Title Annotation:Trouble From the Start
Author:Davis, Mark
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Sound recording review
Date:May 9, 2006
Words:125
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