My Roots Are Showing... (1996)

It's a shame My Roots Are Showing... isn't better, since K.T. Oslin is such an endearingly whacked-out character. ''The songs and the players are the real stars here,'' she told an interviewer recently; unfortunately, she's right. With the stripped-down production on this sheaf of offbeat oldies, Oslin's vocal limitations — camouflaged in the past by electronic means — stand naked. On the other hand, the band — assembled by coproducer Rick Will — rock out. B-

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