23: The Way it Is – Nicole Atkins (iPod Challenge)

A deep breath. Turn it up, you can hear it. Then that voice…

“Don’t tell me

My love’s not the one that I want

That he’s not the one that I need

I’d rather

find out for myself”

Astunningalto, scraping the bottom of its register, with a mishmash of instruments and sounds join in on the fourth word. Again, that voice reaches out and demands to be heard, to be felt, to be recognized as something more than just a voice. There is more than a story, but an epic ballad going on here, sweeping in scale and...