Eight to watch in '08
Pop music critics Joan Anderman, Sarah Rodman, and James Reed forecast the year ahead
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NICOLE ATKINS Her voice sounds like it traveled through the decades, crossed state lines, and knocked back a few shots before arriving - ardent, humongous, and untethered to time and place - in the body of a modern Jersey girl. There's history here: Roy Orbison and Loretta Lynn, classic rock, occasional dashes of musical theater, Jimmy Reed, Leonard Cohen. Atkins once said she wanted to sound like a girl group in a David Lynch movie, and her new album, "Neptune City," a deep, effervescent collection of noir Americana, fills that bill. Check out Atkins Feb. 15 at T.T. the Bear's before she moves (and it will be soon) into bigger rooms.
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