Adele Concert

Adele TV Adele is a relatively new artist out of England. I think of her as an Amy Winehouse if Amy laid off the drugs and booze, took a shower and ate a chicken sandwich. Check out the Adele TV link above to sample some of her songs and videos. Her album 19 is great from start to finish with winners such as "Cold Shoulder" and "My Same." She also does a great cover of "Make You Feel My Love." Don't believe me? Check out the Rolling Stone review below! Like fellow crooners Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash, Adele Adkins polished her skills at the Brit School in south London — as good a finishing academy as American Idol. Her debut, which topped the British charts earlier this year, lacks the bad-girl brio of those grads, but it shows off a vocal instrument that smokes the competition. Check out "Cold Shoulder," a lover's blues, produced by Winehouse's secret weapon, Mark Ronson: Over swirling strings and a snare pattern borrowed from James Brown's "Funky Drummer," Adele reads her man the riot act with a mix of Memphis-soul-mama swoops and cockney-street-punk stops. "Melt My Heart to Stone" and "Tired," co-written with veteran U.K. hit-maker Eg White, are retro-modern R&B exercises with similar charm. On more sparsely arranged numbers, though — including a measured cover of Bob Dylan's unlikely pop standard "Make You Feel My Love" — her marvelous technique can become cloying, and the boilerplate verses on her originals don't help. Here's hoping the girl's storytelling will one day be as interesting as her phrasing.