Chances (15th Anniversary Edition)

Timeless. A voice, once heard, forever recognized Like Edith Piaf, or Patsy Cline. Not that Jill Barber sounds like them, but she has the kind of voice they had. Unmistakable. Somehow so connected to the heart, that the song comes clear and true to the listener, unaffected, unsullied by fashion, untouched by commercial necessity. It is a voice that stops time. And the songs. Great songs need an underlying truth, even wisdom. Jill's songs don't sound "written". They sound like standards, like they were always there, waiting for her voice to take full flight.