“She’s the one from Ally McBeal, right?” The infuriating yet somehow predictable question I get asked when I say I am reviewing Vonda Shepard this evening. Whilst the friend concerned is quite right, I can’t help but feel she has just reduced an established songwriter and musician to a chintzy pop-singer-turned-actress whose career peaked in a 90’s TV show, and this troubles me. What people forget is that whilst the programme provided Shepard with her ‘big break’, she was already an establised artist with three albums and a US top ten single under her belt when she was...02/03/2010 | Vonda Shepard – Jazz Cafe, Camden
“She’s the one from Ally McBeal, right?” The infuriating yet somehow predictable question I get asked when I say I am reviewing Vonda Shepard this evening. Whilst the friend concerned is quite right, I can’t help but feel she has just reduced an established songwriter and musician to a chintzy pop-singer-turned-actress whose career peaked in a 90’s TV show, and this troubles me. What people forget is that whilst the programme provided Shepard with her ‘big break’, she was already an establised artist with three albums and a US top ten single under her belt when she was...