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So, I am wondering if I am an official Macky (as in a derogetory term for a mac-ophiliac, someone who has an un-natural love for their mac computer) now. Yesterday I made my first purchase from the the iTunes shop.

I don't buy music often, since if I don't have much time to really listen to it anyway, so when I do, you can bet it's good. The first time I heard 19 year-old Nellie McKay on NPR's All Songs Considered, I immediatly dropped what I was doing to search iTunes for the album, Get Away From Me (Amazon link).

I am always impressed with young artists, like Norah Jones, making great music, or even young artists that have potential to make good stuff in the future, such as Averial Levine, but while those two are obviously talented, and I like to listen to Norah Jones, what they lack is originality. Nellie McKay has it all... great music, great voice, great potential, and amazingly original. - although I was reminded a little about Edie Brickell in some of her songs.

You can check out two of her songs in full leangth on All Songs Considered. The difference in style between these two songs alone goes a long way to illustrate her originality and flexibility.

- Wont You Please Be Nice To Me? (second segment from the top)
- Sari (first segment of the show)

You can of course listen to snippets from all songs on the album at the iTunes shop, and if you don't have iTunes, you can hear snippets at her web-site, including my favorite Ding Dong

How did you manage to buy music through iTunes in Japan? I didn't think it was available for us yet.

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