Title: Check out her other CDs first
Review: There's always something great on any Sonya Hunter recording (here, "Just Good Music" and her cover of Lucinda Williams' "Happy Woman Blues" are standouts). There are some problems, too. If "Favorite Short Stories," her first album, sounded underwritten (oddly truncated songs, arrangements that crossed the line from sparse to skimpy), 'Headlights..." (like its title) sounds overwritten, as if some of the songs sat on the back burner for a little too long. "Know You Want Me" is a long, meandering song with time shifts that are distracting rather than interesting; "Bicycle" is a colorless album closer; "Stars" is -- I hate to say it -- twee, and actually reminded me of the Indigo Girls' occasional hymns to workin' on the land. Not a good thing.
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