![]() I don’t sound a thing like him-he sings with this firm vibrato that’s just unmistakably him. that was the guy that I was trying to copy at the beginning of The Walkmen. So much of the music itself you could just kind of throw away-this kind of production from the ’60s in L.A.-but the sound of his voice. But when I was 18, I discovered Roy Orbison, and that voice was so out of time and out of space-it was like hearing an opera singer. When I was really getting into music in my teens I was into Iggy Pop and Fugazi and The Cramps-and those guys aren’t really singerly singers. Having known your music and your voice originally through The Walkmen, the notion of you doing a kind of Sinatra turn was a little disorienting-is he a conscious inspiration, or singers in that realm?ĭefinitely. “It took a bit to really warm up, but once we got into the swing of it and figured out how to keep the tempo and volume going and what worked, I loved it-and I immediately told them I’d love to come back this year, so here I am.”Īlso on the docket at the Café: Punk and rock legend David Johansen, the infamous frontman of the New York Dolls, inhabiting his more lounge-friendly crooner alter ego Buster Poindexter (April 2–13) the actress/singer/dancer Dianna Agron, perhaps best known as Quinn from Glee (January 22–February 2) and the inimitable Isaac Mizrahi, returning for his third residency to perform classics from Bernstein to Cole Porter and beyond (February 5–16). “It was awesome,” Leithauser says over lunch. The Café Carlyle kicks off its 2019 season tonight with a three-night stand from Hamilton Leithauser-now well into his career as a solo artist after 15 or so years fronting the legendary New York City band The Walkmen-who returns after kicking out the jams there (so to speak) last year in a two-week residency that he enjoyed immensely.
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