Marc Cohn is the missing link between such '70s piano-playing troubadours such as Randy Newman and Donald Fagan and today's scruffier Ben Folds Five. He tempers his refined, mainstream pop and old fashioned R&B sensibilities with a slightly world-weary attitude that doesn't stoop to cynicism. Think of Jackson Browne and James Taylor becoming a songwriting team after listening to Boz Scaggs do "Dirty Lowdown.
