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Is a puzzlement, as Yul Brynner's King of Siam was wont to
say. What do you do when you find the perfect voice, but have no
interest in the material that voice chooses to record? That's the
problem I have with Alison Krauss. When she sings
It
Doesn't Matter on an episode of Buffy, it's a moment of rare
beauty among the mayhem and teenaged angst. And her covers of Now
That I've Found You, Just When I Needed You Most and
Whenever I Call You Friend (all sadly unavailable on the Music
Store) have a warmth and a sweetness never imagined by the original
artists. But these are rare finds amongst the fiddle & banjo laden
performances that fill her albums. What I wouldn't give for a
collection with a lot less country and more of that singular
voice.
So Wrong, indeed.
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