Ashley Monroe is making country music sexy again with 'Sparrow'

Some songs merely talk about sex while others emit heat and sensuality in such a way a car's windows need to be rolled down when the notes escape from the radio's speakers to keep its inhabitants from melting. Ashley Monroe's "Hands on You," from the country siren's latest album, "Sparrow," turns up the heat with a slow-burning strut of guitars, orgasmic strings, and her rapturous twang purring out lyrics like, "I wish you would've laid your hands on me / And never let me go / Drawing pictures on my skin / Places no one's ever been."

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