Me'Shell Ndegeocello
first earned fame with the "Wild Night" cover she belted out with John
Cougar Mellencamp all those years ago, but her solo material, which is
marked by genre mixing and complicated gender politics, has always been
more nuanced than that hit suggested. Her 2005 CD, The Spirit Music Jamia, was basically a jazz album, but her new The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams
is a sprawling free-for-all, filled with muscular funk, rock and, well,
just about everything else. It’s anybody’s guess how she’ll bring that
eclectic album to the stage tonight at her 8 p.m. concert at the Turner
Hall Ballroom.
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