velvety

Returning to the trail, with its soothing chorus of crickets, velvety laurel sumac shrubs and feathery wild grasses, something inside me loosened.

Described by blues-rock titan and mentor Buddy Guy as “the next explosion of the blues,” 25-year-old Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has wowed fans and critics alike with his incendiary guitar playing, velvety smooth vocals and expressive songwriting — a veritable triple threat.

As a producer, he anchored the songs on arrangements so precious and velvety, they sounded as if they were meant to be framed at a museum.

Gentle, velvety soft tension is the defining vibe of “Wayne Brady: The Family Remix.”

The Drunken option gets sous vide’d with Shaoxing — Chinese rice wine — which imparts a slight extra salinity, then it’s drizzled with sesame oil for a touch of that flavor and added velvety softness.