Indestructible Machine

The rattletrap electricity in foggy mountain throwdowns like "Bad Way To Go" and "Do Right" may channel ground zero-era Old 97s, but the underlying bruised vulnerability comes across like Neko Case's tuff little sister. "Can't Change Me," with its choppy, tense guitar tonality recalling Television's Richard Lloyd, stridently and stubbornly tells the world to stuff it, while "More Like Them"'s muscular power pop hits on the classic rockand-roll motif of the outsider; both could be anthems forblank generations along the rural routes everywhere. But she's also got the vocal nuances to pull off country soul well beyond her years on "How Many Women," which could have been pulled right out of the strong-woman wronged canon of Loretta Lynn, and "Crazy," full of boozy heartache and the lilt of Appalachia.