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Rob Thomas on Annie Lennox: “She’s Down and Dirty”

11/19/08, 12:30 pm EST

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“Anybody my age turning on MTV and seeing Annie Lennox sing ‘Sweet Dreams,’ that was enough right there,” says Matchbox Twenty singer Rob Thomas of the former singer of the Eurythmics. Thomas cites her vocal variety as the key to her greatness. “When she does stuff like ‘No More I Love Yous,’ she gets this ethereal Sarah McLachlan-esque kind of thing that just sounds like a beautiful angel. And then she can switch over the sound of her voice and make it sound like she’s gargling glass. And so many people can’t do that,” he says. Click below for more from Thomas on Lennox and for more from Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

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Mike/Houston,TX. | 11/21/2008, 5:01 pm EST

I like Rob Thomas a lot and have all his solo & Matchbox Twenty music, but, LINDA RONSTADT should have been tapped on for the essay-commentary on ANNIE LENNOX because RONSTADT is a classic singer, better qualified, and she proclaimed LENNOX the most important female singer of the past 50 years during an album promo performance/interview in the mid-90’s on either David Letterman or Jay Leno’s shows, maybe both. I recall seeing Miss Ronstadt on there and a week later Miss Lennox also appeared and the host informed her of Ronstadt’s commentary and she was bewildered and humbled by the experience, as she cited Ronstadt on of her own favorites. Rob Thomas does indeed display depth and a sense of accomplishment as a singer.

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