In Brief
Albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor) to five (a classic)
*** Kathy Mattea, “Time Passes By,” Mercury. With fiddles sawing, dobros yearning and guitars plucking, Mattea turns in a largely acoustic, heavily bluegrass-flavored album that still somehow manages to sound not far removed from pop folkies like Suzanne Vega. Her unflappable sincerity rings through even on a couple of gooey songs she, and time, should have passed by.
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