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Lisa Moscatiello is a singer and songwriter with roots in folk, pop and jazz. She has been compared to Annie Lennox, Sandy Denny and kd lang. In a review of her latest CD, "Second Avenue", Billboard said she possesses "one of the most gorgeous vocal instruments in all of folk-tinged pop," and in Rock 'n' Reel (UK) critic John O'Regan stated "Her voice is a mixture of strength and serenity perfectly capable of causing a quiet storm." Moscatiello?s first album, Innocent When You Dream , established her as a singer able to embrace a wide variety of songs and make them her own. On Second Avenue she continues in this vein, with Jesse Winchester?s sultry "Biloxi" alongside the Eurythmics? "Love Is a Stranger," Abbey Lincoln?s bossa-inflected "Throw it Away" and a sensuous Northern Irish love song called "The Lass of Glenshee." On Second Avenue, she also unveils the debut recording of "Sleepin? Late," a ballad penned in 1965 by Motown songwriter Fangette Willett. In recent years Moscatiello?s original songs have become a staple of her live performances, and fans will recognize the catchy title song, "Second Avenue", a dryly humorous look at unrequited love, the driving "Fugitive" co-written with Arthur Loves Plastic?s Bev Stanton, and her penetrating contemporary folk ballads "Night Bird", "Bed by the Window" and "Angry Town." *Second Avenue was originally released in 2000 by Wind River Records. This 2002 re-release contains two new cuts, "Little Maggie" and "In the Here and Now."