★★★★★
Vonda Shepard isn't justJackson Browne's backup singer and current opening act. She's apotential inheritor of his old-school mantle ? which is to say,piano-based, baby-faced, supple-voiced singer-songwriters rarelyget any better than this...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
On Monday nights, she may be Covers Girl, but on record, Vonda Shepard writes herself boatloads of beautiful melodies that are far more spellbinding than the nostalgic cheese they feed her on TV. Check your irony at the door: This piano-pop Ally McBeatific delineates the dangers of dating roguish loners and emerges with ivory, ideals, and glow intact. In By 7:30 you don't even have to be a woman who loves too much to find the balmlike qualities of her best white-soul ballads restorative.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Give the show's stars a chestnut or two apiece to roast, toss in Macy Gray's ''Winter Wonderland,'' and let Shepard handle the rest on Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas Featuring Vonda Shepard.
It' not quite as dire as it sounds: Shepard's soulful run through of Donnie Hathaway's ''This Christmas'' is compelling, while Robert Downey Jr.'s surprising take on the Joni Mitchell tearjerker ''River'' is better than you'd suspect...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Is it karma that a former Jackson Browne backup singer supplies
the music for a series about lawyers in love? In fact, there's
probably never been a better matchup of singer and TV character
than the teaming of Vonda Shepard and Ally McBeal. Case in
point: Songs From Ally McBeal, which includes
Shepard originals and covers she sings in her role as the
series' bar crooner...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
After inflicting the emotionally superfluous musical interludes for the loathsome Ally McBeal,
- nme.com
2009-06-07
★★★★★
ENTER DUCK-FACED McBEAL, troubled over which thick-necked Ivy League chump she should swap for which other identical man with jutting chin. A hint of sincerity wafts over her visage. It quickly vanishes. Music plays...
A horrible programme, Ally McBeal. Forget the dialogue ("I don't really feel I have, like, closure with you..."), the worst thing is her taste in music...
- nme.com
2008-10-22
★★★★★
Vonda Shepard is a perfect example of how radically one's luck can change for the better. Given the boot by Reprise in 1992, the singer/songwriter lacked either a record deal or a manager for several years -- from 1992 to 1996, the last thing one expected from her was a platinum album. But in the late 1990s, Shepard's frequent appearances on Fox-TV's hit program Ally McBeal gave her a major boost, and 1998's Songs from Ally McBeal went platinum in the U.S...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
For years, Vonda Shepard toiled in semi-obscurity, releasing two albums to a small cult audience. One of her fans happened to be David Kelley, a television producer of such hit television shows as L.A. Law, Picket Fences, and Chicago Hope. When he was creating Ally McBeal, an urban dramedy about an appealingly spunky and confused 20-something lawyer, he decided to have Ally's misadventures mirrored in songs by none other than Vonda Shepard...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
On the third installment of television series Ally McBeal soundtracks, Vonda Shepard and guests -- Macy Gray and cast members Calista Flockhart, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, and Robert Downey, Jr. -- toast the Yuletide season with Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas Featuring Vonda Shepard. R&B;, jazz, swing, and blues treatments are added to such holiday favorites as "This Christmas," "The Man With the Bag," and "Silver Bells...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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