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“I took a lot of time -- this was not in college, but my own school -- studying Sarah Vaughan’s vocals and her approach, and Nina Simone -- singers who are slick but still smooth with a little bit of roughness around it,” she said.

You almost want to hug her when she snarls/slurs "Don't comfort me / I'm drinking and I'm angry" ("Don't Mind Me").Learn more about how Oath collects and uses data and how our partners collect and use data.Select ' OK' to allow Oath and our partners to use your data, or ' Manage options' to review our partners and your choices.When Smith was 19, her mother died of cancer, a loss she explored to great critical acclaim on her 2004 debut album, “One Moment More,” which earned her a place alongside respected singer-songwriters such as Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams.Loss and recovery have been strong themes on her subsequent releases, “Long Island Shores” in 20’s “Stupid Love.”She returns to that theme, from a slightly different perspective, on her new collection, “Mindy Smith,” which was released in June on her own Giant Leap Records label.