THE art of reinterpretation is explored by Pete Molinari, a not-so-familiar name with a very familiar performance style, and singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose familiar songs are reworked in a more intimate and personal way.

From titles such as Streetcar Named Desire, New York City and A Train Bound For Glory, let alone his voice, you would expect Molinari to be as American as Presley, Springsteen, Orbison or Cash. Not so, he is an Englishman from Kent who grew on both sides of the Pond, and now straddles the two in his urban country music, like Nick Lowe, Chris Difford and Elvis Costello before him. An English wit and small-town romance combines with the best of old Nashville, Sun Studios and Sixties’ Greenwich Village on a retro classic.

Vega, meanwhile, is revisiting her 25-year catalogue for four themed albums; essentially it is an exercise in stripping songs of recording-studio fashions, in favour of a closer inspection of her Greenwich folk roots. Monotone rather than revelatory, alas.