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...Crazy, She's Got You, I Fall to Pieces and the peerless heart crusher, Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside." The way she transformed hurt into art made Cline the Callas of country...
...windows for the rest of the summer. The best tracks, however, are the midtempo songs, such as Let It Flow (which was also on the Waiting to Exhale sound track) and Why Should I Care. These numbers are poignant, melodic and lovely at points, but Braxton's lush contralto gives them substance and meaning. "The things I sing about, women can identify with," she says. "Although they're sad love songs, I always sound determined. I always try to portray it like everything's going to be O.K.; I'm still strong...
Listen to her rich, brooding contralto and you can only assume that LEANN RIMES has loved and lost more times than Tammy Wynette. As it turns out, though, this Texas chanteuse is still at an age where heartbreak is a bad game of spin the bottle. Rimes, 13, is churning out teardrops across the country with her first single, Blue, a ballad originally written for Patsy Cline. Rimes' rendition has soared up the country charts, putting her in the company of idols like Wynonna Judd. "Everybody's starting to know who I am," Rimes says. But do fans believe...
...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...
...latest release, The Woman I Am. The title reflects a new self-determination that goes beyond mere semantics. Taking charge for the first time in her 20-year career, Khan produced the album herself and co-wrote six of its 13 songs, including the title track. Her fiery contralto is in total command on all of them, swooping effortlessly from a raunchy growl to a soulful wail. The result is frisky, hip-shaking music. So go ahead, party hearty...