Listen to “Mint Juleps and Needles” on MySpace.
Lyrics and enunciation, people. You have to love hearing every syllable clearly while each line presents you with cocktail party-entertaining-quality quips and vocabulary. From the person who popularized the phrase, we are the people our parents warned us about, comes “Mint Juleps and Needles”, perhaps Brenda Kahn’s finest collection of lines and phrases all compacted into one punch of a song. Nestled in one of the top ten albums of the 1990s (Epiphany in Brooklyn), “Mint Juleps and Needles will make you a fan of Brenda Kahn in no time. If you’re craving more, pay her $10 so she becomes convinced to release another album….
Thanks for recognizing this amazing artist, song, and album!
No problem. I got the chance to meet Brenda Kahn twice and she’s a very obviously amazing person.