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Both Bahni Turpin (Opal) and James Langston (Nev) give their idiosyncratic 70s rockers nuanced portrayals. Sunny Curtis, is convincing, thoughtful, and measured. Janina Edwards, who plays central character S. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss this 2022 Audie Award winner in Fiction, a well-imagined take on the music scene of the 1970s. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens.ĭawnie Walton’s engaging audiobook, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, is narrated with energy and style by a full cast. With the help of her stylist Virgil, who sees her unusual looks as a canvas for otherworldly drama, and Jimmy, her drummer and lover, who teaches her how to hear and adapt their music, she becomes a bolder, more authoritative presence.Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles. Coming of age in Detroit, she can’t imagine settling for a 9-to-5 jobdespite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. She’s never been taught to read music and doesn’t know much about the world she’s entering, but she knows she wanted out of her old life, and that’s all the motivation she needs. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed.
Opal is skinny and dark-skinned and, because of alopecia, spent her childhood being taunted by kids who called her baldie. Opal arrives in New York facing the skepticism of the label executive who had hoped Nev would choose her buxom and more conventionally attractive sister, Pearl, as his vocal partner. How wonderful it is to watch Walton build that complexity, starting with Opal’s fraught music industry debut.
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