The Magic of “Hello”

The first time I heard Adele’s, “Hello” from her recently released album, “25”, it wasn’t her singing it.  A close friend and fellow music fan sent me a YouTube link of one of my favorite R&B artists (Joe Thomas) covering it.  I thought, “Wow… this is really good!  Another solid delivery by Joe!”  But then I realized that I had not heard the original yet, so I watched the music video and oh my; I was simply blown away! As good as Joe Thomas’ rendition was, as good as were…