Consumer Guide Album

Bobbie Cryner: Bobbie Cryner [Epic, 1993]
Not only does she sound like John Anderson with a higher voice and better hair, she writes. Cleverly, too, even if "This Heart Speaks for Itself" speaks for her aesthetic--stompers and weepers like "I'm Through Waitin' on You" and "I Think It's Over Now" are a decisive tad more straightforward than hook-laden Music Row koans like "The One I Love the Most." Expressing herself or exerting her professionalism, she's thoughtful and untamed, a natural-born womanist who's taking no shorts. Neotrad Nashville has not seen her like. But it will. A−