Amy MacDonald: Born to Run like Bruce?

[Kush]

Is she the new Bruce Springsteen ? I like her accent too. Scotland is the flavor of the month. I ordered her live CD from Amazon - the studio album sounded more packaged and also the live CD has Born to Run on it.

Born to Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hoapNjPiRc

her own compositions
Spark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCZukDIPZc

Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFrakgPuqr8


Hallelujah again - this sounds terrific to my untrained ears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iu0FhRmoZE

[John Etherington]

I thought you meant this one, for a moment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEU--D2dFI

[Kush]

well I have been listening to this CD all weekend. Outstanding rock album. She is a very fine songwriter if not quite the poet of the street Springsteen is. She has a similar sense of musicianship, rhythm and flow. A sense of symmetry between the flow of music and the words. And a great band although I would not put it on par with E Street. Yet. But best of all is The Voice.

[Diane]

Kush I haven't yet heard all your links but there will never be a new Bruce - the new boss is same as the old boss!
John Etherington, spare us:-)
On the theme of female Scottish singers, how about Maggie Bell of Stone the Crows:
Sunset Cowboy (too sad this one!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=751MTUaCq7g
Raining in Your Heart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EazYI1JIw2A

[Kush]

haha - well it was an intentionally provocative first statement (but not completely inaccurate title) Diane.

[Steven]

Hi Kush,

Amy's cover of "Born to Run" replaces Bruce's frenetic impartation with a pensiveness. It's interesting,
and her good looks enhance the performance, though the song, to my ears, has become neutered
to no small extent.

[Kush]

On the contrary Steven, I thought her version brought out the starkness of the song more. Like Johnny Cash's Further Up on the Road (compared to Springsteen's). But these are all subjective reactions. I thought it was her voice more than anything else that to me enhances the performances. Well I liked her music so much I went ahead and ordered a live CD with orchestral versions - with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra below:

What Happiness Means to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYX7NSitljI

This is the Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuYIDh7d_xw

and a very stark and yes pensive live version of Dancing in the Dark with just her guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS_fK5YiRNM

strip away the rock and the roll and it is a very pensive song.