INDIE SPOTLIGHT
By turns both tender and tenacious, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter demonstrates her expressive attributes to the fullest on her fourth outing to date, If You Can’t Say Anything Nice. On the span of 10 tracks, she brings to mind any number of singer-songwriters that helped bring both savvy and sensitivity to radio playlists circa the ‘70s and ‘80s. Indeed the upbeat enthusiasm of “All Come Together” and the turbulent treatment of the meaningful “Medication” demonstrate her ability to shift tone and tempo with obvious ease. Still, it’s the deeper themes she addresses here — Second Amendment gun rights, the scourge of pharmaceutical addiction and the barrage of a nonstop,
