![]() The result is a bluntness of expression, a rush to make an emotional point, that precludes experimentation with the sound of words, with imagery, and with methods of poetic indirection. ![]() ![]() They aren’t songwriting slouches: Both offer material that is intelligent, deeply felt and melodically attractive.īut they nevertheless reflect the general slippage of songsmithing in an era when video is triumphant and text is in retreat. ![]() Gaines, 28, has two albums to his credit and Cole, 26, is a newcomer with one release. At the Jeffrey Gaines/Paula Cole double feature at the Coach House Friday night, passion was enough to raise the level of the young East Coast singer-songwriters’ performances far above the level of their songwriting. Passion is no ordinary word, to quote Graham Parker.
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