Consumer Guide Album

Laura Lee: I Can't Make It Alone [Invictus, 1974]
Lee shows a lot of singing skills here--without downplaying her natural rasp she achieves a gratifying fullness (even softness), and she knows how to put her range at the service of a song's drama. Now if only these songs had some drama--the best moment is a whispered ad lib in which Lee describes a seduction play-by-play. And the title concept is a disgrace--180 degrees is too damn far to turn even if that is the way life comes out sometimes. B−