Consumer Guide Album

Robin Lane & the Chartbusters: Robin Lane & the Chartbusters [Warner Bros., 1980]
Formally, this is reactionary, from Lane's chesty melismas to the band's fakebook licks, and the songs go on too long. But every one catches, and despite Lane's lady-macho stage moves, her lyrics seem felt in what I can only call a progressive way--autonomous but not anomic or selfish, compassionate but not infinitely longsuffering. B+