This album, produced in Austin, Texas by Rob Flynt, started life a demo of covers as a way of getting live bookings.
Its eleven tracks include her takes on songs by Dr John; Neil Young, Uncle Tupelo, Emmylou Harris, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. A couple of these are duets with singer-songwriters Jimmy Lafave and Will Sexton
The tracks make for an interesting list but Pullus adds nothing new to the material and the limitations of her vocal ability are exposed in a weak rendition of Son Of A Preacher Man which is an extremely poor relation to the much loved versions by Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield.
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She sounds marginally more convincing on her own songs, of which there are three. The best of these is Baby Please about a woman who turns to whisky and cocaine after getting dumped.
Other than this, the record just ends up sounding like twangified karaoke.
Penny Jo Pullus' website
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