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Title: Best Songwriter going?
Review: The best songwriters going right now are Iris Dement, Richard Buckner, and Grace Braun, who now balances a solo career and her legendary band DQE. Her last album was the country and folk laced It Won't Hurt, which had more than one bona fide all-time classic song. Queen Of Mean is a return to the more rock and punk side of her earlier DQE days but with no let up in the quality of her songs- there are still songs you could whittle down around the campfire. And her melodies on some songs are major-league hooky. If the Ramones had recorded a folk album it might sound like this. Iris, Buckner and Braun are very dissimilar, but they share a common thread of being great songwriters, and with this album, I think Grace takes the lead.
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