Mary Coughlan - Red Blues -2002- Access

Billie Holiday, Tom Waits, Marianne Faithfull (especially Broken English ), and the soundtrack to The Night of the Hunter .

While Coughlan is a capable songwriter, her greatest strength on Red Blues lies in her genius as an interpreter of other people's music. She possesses a rare ability to take existing songs and inhabit them so completely that they feel like pages torn directly from her own diary. Mary Coughlan - Red Blues -2002-

True to Coughlan’s style of alchemically transforming others' songs into autobiography, Red Blues features a mix of new material and covers of blues and jazz standards. Marianne Faithfull (especially Broken English )