Aimee Mann: Avalon Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Steven R Rosen, Harp, 9 December 2006
LIKE HER voice itself, Aimee Mann's Christmas concert – her first of what promises to be an annual event – in L.A. was winningly straightforward and charmingly unaffected, yet also undercut with a questioning sense of melancholy that made it seem all the more honest and genuinely felt.
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