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Bittersweet is more than an undertone in Abi Tapia’s latest CD, but that’s not the prevailing emotion here. Beauty weaves strong Southern influences with an old-school 1970s country-folk sensibility, mastering the understatement in her songs and avoiding cutesy-rootsy overkill with intelligence and a fine tenor on this turning-point recording.
This article appears in August 1 • 2008.
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