VV Brown

Thu., Feb. 18, 9 p.m., $8-$10, with Prowler, MarBar, 4000 Walnut St., 215-222-0800, marbarphilly.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Feb 16, 2010

pop/soul

Vanessa Brown stands apart from the UK's post-Winehouse parade of eyelash-heavy would-be divas — Duffy, Adele, Pixie Lott, Gabriella Cilmi, ad nauseum — not just for her hairdo (an ber-retro flat-top fringe) and genuinely refreshing spunkiness, but also her range. She can do the brassy '60s girl-group thing with the best of 'em — check her irresistibly breezy summer smash "Shark in the Water" — but her debut long-player Travelling Like the Light (just out here on Capitol) also finds space for struttin' rockabilly, Andrews Sisters-style boogie-woogie and, on "Everybody," a savvy flashback to the house-infused early-'90s R&B of Soul II Soul.

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