Paolo Nutini

Royal Festival Hall, LondonPaolo Nutini channels more voices than the late Doris Stokes, and all of them were present at this one-off concert for Meltdown. The singer, still only 23, began inflected with Ray Charles, took in along the way in no particular order Bob Marley, Otis Redding, various blind Mississippi bluesmen, gestured toward Pete Seeger and the Proclaimers, and ended up in Spanish Harlem. It is a tribute to his own remarkable vocal possibilities that he can carry all of this off, an...

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