NOAH ZACHARIN PLAYS THE FREE TIMES CAFÉ (320 COLLEGE) DEC 6.
It’s tempting to describe Noah Zacharin as a folkie because he’s a singer-songwriter who plays an acoustic guitar. But “folk” doesn’t begin to cover the range of this mature, well-crafted album. In Zacharin’s world, a nasty, sexy, double-entendre blues, “The Convertible Kind,” comes complete with a Dixieland jazz band; a Celtic-style ballad of lost love, “In The Heather,” is set against Uilleann pipes, fiddles and a tin whistle; a sprightly, country-ish take on god’s creation, “All Go Blind,” boasts bluegrass banjo and mandolin. Meanwhile, the superb jazz-pop vocal “In Love Again” deserves to become a standard, covered by the likes of Tony Bennett and Michael Bublé. And Zacharin does it all with the easy mastery of a natural. Highly recommended.