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A lot of people, when they first hear Duffy (MySpace), might have a knee-jerk reaction of, "Oh, that girl is just trying to sound like Amy Winehouse." It's an understandable, if not entirely fair, reaction to the 24-year-old Welsh singer's brand of neo-soul music. Duffy's music is, at its best, a heck of a lot more thoughtful and personal than Winehouse's. At a minimum, Duffy is unencumbered by the melodrama that seems to consume Winehouse—both musically and personally.

When I entered the TLA on Wednesday night, I experienced a slight feeling of déjà vu. And it wasn’t even just that I had been there the night before to see Bloc Party. No, it was because I was there to see British retro-soul singer Duffy, whose sound harkens back to Dionne Warwick during the Burt Bacharach years, or Dusty Springfield, if you need me to compare her to a white person to restore the cosmic balance. The singer, who is part of the cavalcade of voices who entered the door opened by Amy Winehouse before she became a babbling crack whore, released a stellar debut album named Rockferry this year, and though she is not known for her showmanship, she is certainly known for having a voice that can make grown men spill beer all over themselves in admiration…or maybe that was just me.