Pop music spotlight: Joss Stone

September 29, 2012 at 8:16PM
Joss Stone
Joss Stone (Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

JOSS STONE

Thursday: After singing with Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart last year in the short-lived supergroup Super Heavy, this British R&B siren has returned to what made her famous -- interpreting classic soul music. On the just-released album "Soul Sessions Vol. 2," the 25-year-old sends up songs by the Chi-Lites and the Dells and even takes on a modern tune, Broken Bells' "The High Road," which she makes sound like an oldie. The new disc is something of a delayed sequel to her debut, "Soul Sessions," which created a buzz when she was only 16. (8 p.m. Thu. $52-$55. O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Catherine University, 2004 Randolph Av., St. Paul. 651-690-6700.)

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Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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