My copy of Love Letters from the Electric Chair arrived the other day and I'm enjoying making my way through it.
While I was thinking about her, I noticed that Izzy Cox had posted a set of videos on Youtube. I'm really digging Man of the Cloth today so I'm adding that video below. The others are posted on Izzy Cox's YouTube profile and I really recommend checking them all out. Good stuff.
If it wasn't for episodes 15 and 65 of the SMtv podcast, I probably never would have heard of Izzy Cox. Even if I had heard of her somewhere, I would have seen the "voodoobilly jazz" description, dismissed it as 'way not my style' and moved on.
My style or not, I find her music to be fascinating in a way I find hard to describe. It has a vintage style to it but it's hard for me to pin it to one particular era...20's, 40's, 50's or whatever the new modern is. Her voice is raw and full of personality. I see her music described by saying "she has a style of her own" and I definitely agree. Someone posted some video clips of a live performance to Youtube, so you can figure it out for yourself. One of them, called "Devil, Devil," is embedded below.
Izzy's MySpace page has a link back to CDBaby where you can buy her music if you like.
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