New York Times gives big love to Matt Alber's Lincoln Center performance

Steven Holden of the New York Times has much praise for the fab out singer/songwriter Matt Alber's recent concert at Lincoln Center.

Here's just a bit of the big love:

But it’s the music and Mr. Alber’s singing that make “End of the World” one of the most wrenching ballads to be heard in years. And to hear him perform it on Friday evening at the Kaplan Penthouse as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, was to be transported to beautiful, but scarily treacherous emotional terrain.

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This was exquisite folk-pop singing anchored in classical discipline.

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Other high points were his sensitive cover versions of Fleetwood Mac’s “Songbird,” and Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love.” Stripped of its dance beats and slowed into an acoustic ballad, the Whitney Houston hit “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” — sung as duet with the guest singer Celisse Henderson — was turned inside out to become a naked a cry of loneliness and longing. Who knew that such depth lay just beneath the surface of that peppy dance hit?

Read the entire review at NY Times.

And you can watch the entire concert below. Enjoy!