“Nellie McKay isn’t the type to offer an unthinking inducement to romance. A singer-songwriter drawn to the inherent tensions between surface and substance, she has earned her reputation for unruly drolleries. . .The bottom line for McKay, it would seem, is that there’s always another level, a deeper layer. And this much remains true on her new version of “The Nearness of You,” performed alone at the piano and offered here just in time for Valentine’s Day.”-Nate Chinen, NPR
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