Consumer Guide Album

Rosie Flores: After the Farm [HighTone, 1992]
Formal imagination quotient: zero. She's not even pure country like the last time somebody paid her to put out a record, back in '87--just L.A. country-rock with a barely perceptible edge. But the catch in her voice has gotten so husky you want to give her a squeeze, and she writes more good songs about the usual thing than any of the young hunks who've given Nashville delusions of grandeur in the interim even bother to sing. Guess her problem is that she's kind of uppity--for a girl. A−