Where Your Road Leads
Trisha Yearwood, like her better half in the Mavericks, is becoming more and more country-pop (and less pop-country) with each release. Her latest leads her further down the road into 1970s Linda Rondstadt territory than ever before. It's a land where great pipes and stellar playing are frequently put to the service of treacly ballads and anemic rockers but also a destination guaranteed to provide at least a couple of stunning moments. "There Goes My Baby," about a woman who didn't know how good she had it, is twangy, unpretentious pop, rock-solid and catchy as all get out, and the steel-guitar-driven, Cali country-rock of "Bring Me All Your Lovin'" is as sonically stunning a moment as Nashville's produced in years.--David Cantwell