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Patricia B meets Cole P

Friday, 28th November 2008

For the last couple of days I've been mulling over my records of the year. The elegant Patricia Barber has been a fixture in the past, and I'm almost embarrassed to admit that her Cole Porter album is up there again this time around. The song I play most of all is her gentle reworking of "You're the Top"  - "something that Cole Porter and I wrote together", she jokes in this clip from a show in Belgrade last month. I just love the way she sneaks John Coltrane, "the Earl Spencer's daughter" and the president-elect into the list of superlatives.

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