Jazz

June, 1996

Mandy Barnett (Asylum) comes from a dazzlingly gifted 20-year-old singer. Barnett spent a couple of years playing Patsy Cline onstage, but she's not a Cline imitator—she's her legacy. The music is unquestionably country, but she has the melodic sense of a pop singer and preternatural interpretative gifts. The songs here range from the traditional Wayfaring Stranger to Willie Nelson's classic Three Days to good new ones from Jim Lauderdale, Kostas, Kelly Willis and Rodney Crowell. Barnett makes t...