Brandy Lynn Confer: In the Dust

When an artist creates an album, there’s an important goal he or she has to achieve right off the bat: grabbing the listener’s attention. 

With her album In the Dust, Brandy Lynn Confer accomplishes this, but not really through any effort of her own. What catches the listener most is the striking similarity between Confer’s voice and Sheryl Crow’s. 

Confer’s voice has the same raspy, throaty quality as Crow’s, and even Confer’s tone and inflection very closely match the superstar’s. This is so evident on the first track, “Heartbreaker,” that it keeps you listening to find out if Confer’s voice really sounds that much like Crow’s, or if it just happens to be on that song....MORE