INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Diane Birch, a Rebellious Spirit with a Soulful Bent

Soul music has become a burgeoning youth movement of sorts. The best new artist trophy at the Grammy Awards the last two years has gone to Adele and Amy Winehouse, two-younger-than-30 artists steeped in vintage sounds. Like the aforementioned artists, Diane Birch is drawing from the decades before she was born. Titled "Bible Belt," Birch's debut pays homage to the sounds of the South -- "Photograph," for example, sways from a comfortably floral orchestration to a full-on gospel coda, and fame...

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