Music Review

I've Got a Right to Cry (1999)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Apr 13, 1999; Lead Performance: Mandy Barnett; Genre: Country

Push the button and it sounds like Nashville, 1960: tinkling piano, cooing chorus, Patsy Cline. Here's a 1999 time capsule of producer Owen Bradley's classic countrypolitan sound, with Bradley himself in the booth (he cut four tracks before his death last year). That doesn't necessarily make I've Got a Right to Cry less formulaic than the latest hat act, but Barnett does have a fabulous voice; she needs one to do such a good Patsy. B-
Originally posted Apr 16, 2007 Published in issue #481 Apr 16, 1999 Order article reprints

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