Lissie: Catching a Tiger | CD review

(Columbia)Midwestern newcomer Lissie Maurus's debut EP, released last autumn, reduced one American writer to spluttering "Dude, dude. Awesome" – a reaction that sets up impossible expectations for this album. As a country-folk songwriter with a bit of rust and regret in her voice, she has her moments, but she's equally capable of the kind of drivetime blandness that endeared Sheryl Crow to America's AOR radio programmers. When I'm Alone and Loosen the Knot embody her way of matching an undeni...

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