A lot of our more established cabaret artists could learn a thing or two from watching Grammy Award-nominated country singer Jo Dee Messina in her thoroughly engaging new show Unmistakable at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency. Rarely has this 10-year-old venue felt more like someone's living room, and that's really what being in an intimate club should be about.

In large part, that's because the clearly free-spirited Messina doesn't play by the genre's conventions. (Hell, there's not even an encore!)

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