Thursday 20 Jun
 
 

Superior sound

Em and the MotherSuperiors with Honeylark and Feathered Rabbit
10 p.m. Friday
Kamps 1310 Lounge
1310 N.W. 25th
kamps1310lounge.com
819-6004
$7

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It might get loud

Okie Noise Fest 2 with Psychotic Reaction, Copperheads, Fire Bad! and more
3 p.m.-midnight Saturday
Bad Granny’s Bazaar
1759 N.W. 16th
free
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Fox news

Foxtrot Uniform with Them Hounds
9 p.m. Friday
Blue Note Lounge
2408 N. Robinson
thebluenotelounge.com
600-1166
$5

Foxtrot Uniform with Quaker City Night Hawks
9 p.m. Saturday
Grady’s 66 Pub
444 W. Main, Yukon
gradys66.com
364-8789
$7
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Sweet slumber

The technology boom of the last two decades has made life easier in a variety of ways. In the music world, widespread computer use has spawned a modern-day compositional renaissance.
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Beau bridges

Beau Mansfield Trio
10 p.m. Saturday
The Bluebonnet Bar
321 E. Main, Norman
447-2480
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Michael Summers — More


Louis Fowler January 9th, 2013

This honky cat is really something else! Need proof? Just take a listen to his swingin’ version of the Elton John classic. Deep bass grooves, jaunty piano, smooth trumpet and sexy, crystalline vocals: This is the version to which all others now must live up.

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Plus, I just like writing “Honky Cat.”

This winning formula that has made Michael Summers the Michael Bublé of the 405 carries throughout the entirety of More. So slip on your finest cocktail dress, load up on olives and pour yourself a tumbler full of the perfectly blended tunes. 

“Secret Love Affair” is the way love songs used to be, and still should be: joyously sweet, privately flirty and loaded with fedora-tipping scat-swagger. The title track manages to out-Sinatra Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, drenched with a playful 2 a.m.-at-The-Brown-Derby appeal that would’ve made a killer duet with Sammy.
Really killer, man.

Speaking of Sinatra, Summers delivers an extremely sensual version of “Night and Day” that, if it isn’t used in diamond commercials soon, is a total whackadoo crime.

Finally, “On My Mind” is a wedding reception slow-dance favorite just waiting to happen, with lyrics that will hold many a newly married couples’ blissful gaze until death do they part.

Or divorce. Whichever comes first. —Louis Fowler

Hey! Read This:
Michael Summers interview  


 
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