I was watching a video on billboard.com recapping the SXSW Festival and was struck by the song, Mercy, being sung in a sultry, Aretha-style by a young woman named Duffy. So off to All Music Guide to discover that Aimee Anne Duffy is a Welsh 20-something who just released her first album, Rockferry. According to IGN.com, "...the British star of South By, and the woman who undoubtedly 'did a Winehouse' this year, was Duffy. Following her meteoric rise to the top of the UK charts last month, she played a monumental first set at the Mercury Records gig, then filled the sizeable Stubb's with her rasping yet soulful tones on Saturday night. Her debut album hits the US next month, and is surely set for Winehouse-style success. Let's just hope that the subsequent twelve months are a little less rocky for the talented Welsh songstress."
Rolling Stone observed that Duffy delivered..." a remarkable set at the Parish Friday afternoon with her six-piece band. The very cute twenty-three-year-old has had a Number One hit in the U.K. for the past month with “Mercy,” a dance-y go-go-style track that begs the Amy Winehouse comparisons. The songs that sealed the deal at her first U.S. gig, though, were the precise but powerful ballads: her other single Rockferry and the affecting Warwick Avenue started gentle and rose to belting, breathtaking crescendos. By the time Duffy ended her six-tune set with a pounding version of Mercy, the industry crowd was swaying on the club floor and entirely besotted."
So off to YouTube to discover this great video of the song, Syrup and Honey:
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