Wy doesn't elevate the American songbook on Sing: Chapter 1, an album of covers, so much as knock it unconscious. The frisky New Orleans jazz of ''That's How Rhythm Was Born'' and ''Women Be Wise'' may be A-OK, but once the arrangements can no longer match her vocals — beware those lugubrious strings! — everything collapses. Worse, there's just nothing new or fresh about the way she's flogging these favorites. And honestly, haven't songs like ''When I Fall in Love'' suffered enough? C
Download This: Listen to songs from the new album on the singer's MySpace
