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    Lora Lee Amram's The Other Side is a lot
    jazzier than the CDs usually noted in these pages, an
    album of cabaret songs without the cynicism, world-
    weariness and outright showing off for showing off's
    sake that that genre usually connotes. The 12 songs,
    all from Lora Lee's own pen, are lively and optimistic
    without being naive or sentimental. Lora Lee's vocals
    are always right on target and deliver intense and
    varied moods. The arrangements are complex, the
    production tasteful. The songs fall into two styles,
    simple cabaret ballads and ballads with a
    Brazilian/samba/bossa nova-flavor. Quite nice, but
    die-hard folk fans should be warned that The Hawk,.
    recorded here, is as close to "pure folk" as this
    collection comes.
    
    