November 2, 2010 | 8:16am ET
Music writers like to pretend like they know it all, but there is just tons of music we are simply unfamiliar with. This spawned my late-night investigation to answer a question I have had for days, maybe even months: Who is Duffy?
Not what I expected first of all. Total babe, second of all.
Her performance of the title-track from her upcoming album is a delicate throw-back and evokes all the wonderful things we remember about our mothers from when we were children, with Etta James’ “At Last” coming to mind personally, which is pretty good stuff to be evoking without ripping off.
The Welsh singer has an album due out on November 29th, titled Endlessly and featuring Albert Hammond Sr. and The Roots. Consider your interested piqued.