I was completely floored by this girl's debut album in 2000. Mind you, she's as country as you can get, via Australia! She has an unmistakable voice and beautiful songs to sing, many of which she wrote. She's a huge star Down Under and should be here, but I guess she's too complicated for the Country scene in the US. She's country like K D Lang and Lyle Lovett were country back in the day, pigeonholed that way because it's as close as you could get to a category description. Anyway, she's teamed up on "Rattlin'Bones" with her husband, and initially I was jealous, thinking he'd rob me of one of my favorite talents of this decade. When this album came out in 2008, I listened to it briefly in an FYE and could not pull the trigger to buy it, it was just too damn country. Very sparse instrumentation, lots of banjo, some pedal steel, but still that incredible voice of hers. A few months ago I hit another country rock phase (more on that to come) and revisited this album. If you are a fan of the Alison Krause/Robert Plant collaboration, you need to give this record a try. I know it's a couple of years old, but do yourself a favor and listen to this or any of her past records. In my book, she's one of the most underrated artists in music today.
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