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LAKEVILLE
(Nettwerk)
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"I wish I could go home now," Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Amy Correia sings near the end of her second album, "where nothing really ever happens." Home for Correia is Lakeville, the Massachusetts town her parents still live in and the haven she repaired to after parting ways with Capitol, the label that released her 2000 debut, Carnival Love. As such, "Lakeville" is a song about the displaced feeling that occasionally stalks every other talented, ambitious 30-year-old in Correia’s peer group. But the low-key charm of the Lakeville she describes in the song also conveys what’s likable about Lakeville. She doesn’t try to force great gobs of emotion through her voice or a vigorously strummed acoustic guitar; she sings and strums comfortably, without straining to put across the realism of her material. Her confidence gives a dreamy, almost ambient quality to "59th Street," in which she rolls down the window in a cab during a rainstorm, and "Coney Island, USA," where she falls asleep on the subway and misses her stop. The drama’s there; Correia allows you to find it yourself. (Amy Correia appears this Saturday, January 29, at the Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, with Paul Bryan; call 617-547-0759.)
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