Carol’s idea of country is both classic and eccentric. Her concert included Hank Williams’ “Hey Good Looking”, Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man”, and Fred Neil’s 1969 hit from Midnight Cowboy, “Everybody’s Talking at Me”. Carol went from classic to eccentric by adopting into her ‘country’ repertoire Lesley Gore’s 1963 hit “It’s My Party, I’ll Cry if I Want To”. Leading her band from the piano, Carol gave this tune a kind of swinging bluesy treatment with an outstanding beat, sang great scat and tweaked the mood of the room up till the customers were smiling, bassist Kieran Overs beamed, David Direnzo on drums was pulling crazy faces, and David Occipinti ran some mad riffs up the neck of his guitar. Carol herself sang higher and louder than usual then brought the number down on a silent space.

Taking advantage of the calmed mood, she introduced a solo, accompanying herself on piano through a recitative of Karla Bonoff’s “Daddy’s Little Girl”. The band joined her for the 40’s standard, “Slow Boat to China” by Kyser and Loesser that got people singing along softly with her till she took it away into scat, jazzy but still smooth compared to the benchmark version by Dee Dee Bridgewater. Cole Porter’s “Just One of Those Things” arranged as a ‘brazilliana’, with some great solos by her sidemen, marked the point at which the band started to go wild, moved into the territory of spontaneous jazz.