From the Archive: Notes on Phrasing from Donny Hathaway
From the pre-history of Echo Locator and that (brief, upsetting) era when American Idol was a thing, appreciating the restraint of Donny Hathaway
What Donny Hathaway Can Teach Those Singing-Show Contestants
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If, that is, they stop preening long enough to listen…. His is an easy name to drop. Maybe that’s why, every few months on one of those gladiator-style TV singing competitions, some well-meaning young person with a blowtorch voice will yammer on about how much Donny Hathaway means to them. And then, of course, said hopeful will sing in a way that suggest…