August 16, 2002

MACCA


Album Review: KELLY WILLIS

EASY
By DARRYL STERDAN



EASY
Kelly Willis
(Ryko/Outside)

Austin country songbird Kelly Willis certainly hasn't had an easy time over the years.

She's written great songs that never made the charts, she's made great albums that never sold, and she's been marketed every which way but never become a star. Plenty of gals would give up, move back home and get a job.

But Willis, bless her heart, just keeps on doing what she does best -- writing simple, understated roots-pop love songs and singing them in her warm, honeyed twang.

With her latest full-length, the ironically titled Easy, she does it as well as ever, giving her faithful cult of fans another 10 homespun missives -- originals like the breezily shuffling If I Left You and the candlelit Reason to Believe, and covers like the zippy bluegrass of You Can't Take it With You (by Paul Kelly) and the bittersweet country waltz of Don't Come the Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim! (by the late Kirsty MacColl).

As always, it's easy to fall in love with Willis -- and hard to understand why everyone else still hasn't. (More on Kelly Willis)

Track Listing
1. If I Left You
2. Easy (As Falling Apart)
3. What Did You Think
4. You Can't Take It With You
5. Getting To Me
6. Don't Come The Cowboy...
7. Wait Until Dark
8. Find Another Fool
9. Not What I Had In Mind
10. Reason To Believe
 


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