Sometimes whimsical, often wry, Jill Sobule offers lens on American life
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Singer Jill Sobule, backed by the Brooklyn-based band, Sex Mob, rocked Union Hall on Friday, February 15, with a concert that had the packed basement room energized and engaged.
Sobule, who lived in Park Slope and Williamsburg before moving to California a few years back, acknowledged that she missed the borough, chatting with audience members, many of whom clearly were familiar with her oeuvre – sly, witty songs that marry clever word-play with social commentary while simultaneously being soulful and, yes, extraordinarily moving.
One of the most requested of Sobule’s songs, which she sang as she wrapped up the two-hour show, was “Lucy at the Gym,” a painful evocation of a young woman struggling with anorexia.