Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee: The Winning Hand [Monument, 1982]This twenty-song mix-and-match isn't even monumental in theory, because two of these "kings and queens of country music" haven't earned their crowns--BL is a rock and roll princess who never really graduated, KK a frog ditto. But BL is also a pleasing bedroom-voiced journeywoman who turns in half of a surprisingly definitive "You're Gonna Love Yourself in the Morning." The other half comes from WN, who's on nine cuts and sounds like he's thinking even when he also sounds like he's asleep. DP teams with WN on a surprisingly definitive "Everything's Beautiful in Its Own Way," but sounds more at home on the album's two utter unlistenables--"Ping Pong," in which DP at her cutesiest is outdone by KK at his klutziest, and "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," in which DP kisses KK's warty little head and he croaks back. B-
>>131992727Brenda is many things but "bedroom-voiced" was never an adjective she called to mind.
>>131992727we don't know anything about country. what's the point of this?
>>131992752this is the only thing Brenda Lee did that he reviewed, while noting that her prime career years long predated Consumer Guide
>>131992780>weSpeak for yourself
>>131992727>>131992752also he's not wrong in that she never could quite be country country, always more pop country
