Obligatory Villagers is the third official album by Nellie McKay (who also has a six-track EP on iTunes for the soundtrack to the film Rumor Has It...). She reveled in a glorious debut, Get Away from Me, which spawned the single "David" that was heard on shows like Grey's Anatomy and Weeds and got a lot of talk for her mixture of rap, jazz, and pop sensibilities that formed into something like psychotic showtunes.

McKay appeared in The Threepenny Opera with Cyndi Lauper and Alan Cumming around the same time her second album (a ...
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