Music Review

Easy (2002)

Details Release Date: Aug 20, 2002; Lead Performance: Kelly Willis

Over nine years and four recordings, Willis' warm, butterscotch voice has put its delectable stamp on everything from mainstream country ballads to frisky roots-rockers. On the mostly acoustic Easy, she gives a rollicking bluegrass reading of Paul Kelly's ''You Can't Take It With You'' and a honky-tonk slant on Marcia Ball's ''Find Another Fool.'' Willis' own title track (one of six here she wrote or cowrote) pierces the heart, with a mourn-ful fiddle adding even more poignancy to her vulnerable croon.

Originally posted Sep 06, 2002 Published in issue #670 Sep 06, 2002 Order article reprints

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