In Brief

KELLY WILLIS
Translated From Love
Rykodisc

Once Willis' big, intent voice and impeccable simplicity made her a textbook country shoulda-been. But with four kids and a decade of marriage to fellow shoulda-been Bruce Robison in the bank, her good taste tethers her to the old homestead on her first album since 2002, taking off only once: on an unlikely cover of Iggy Pop's "Success," brought to her by producer Chuck Prophet and arranged for a ghost version of the Sir Douglas Quintet.

Rolling Stone, MON. D, 2007