There is of course another way to hear ABBA songs sung live onstage, though sadly without Greek island backdrops or background singers wearing floppy swim fins.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
18 Oct. 2026
Sheik, who was a Buddhist, built these songs around trancelike mantras, asking singers to sustain long and clear notes near the top of their register like contrails across the sky.
Steve Martin and Alison Brown have turned it into a vintage-sounding bluegrass tune and recorded it with an all-star cast of singers and players from that genre, including two of the great living bluegrass vocalists, Del McCoury and Dan Tyminski.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
8 Oct. 2026
Not only was there taking the project from two vocalists to one, but there are some apparent stylistic swings, too.
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