Bernard Fanning Tea & Sympathy

Bernard Fanning is blessed with a soul man’s voice, but he never overdoes it on 2005’s Tea & Sympathy. Like vintage songs from Rod Stewart or the Faces, “Sleeping Rough” and “Hope and Validation” are rollicking rock ’n’ roll tunes played with ragged ease. The gentle “Watch Over Me” has the intimacy of a lullaby, but Fanning shows that he can still cut loose, especially on the punched-up power pop of “Wish You Well” and the Bowie-esque glam rock of “Which Way Home?”