Jamie Cullum, Ben Arnold

Crystal Ballroom at The Brown Hotel, Louisville, KY.....

This was a lunchtime showcase performance for a radio convention. 

Jamie Cullum was a complete package. He had enviable musical talent and a winning personality, but the 25 year-old singer (then promoting his album Twentysomething) seemed like an old hand speaking to a roomful of radio programmers and record label people. He pitched himself as a willing partner to radio in an articulate and self-assured way, something that even many grizzled veteran musicians didn't feel comfortable doing. It all clicked that he was being touted in his native UK as a "Sinatra in sneakers," since he seemed like such an old soul in a hip young guy.

 


 

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