SUZY BOGGUSS > Sweet Danger

Suzy Bogguss sings well on Sweet Danger, but the material is so recessive as to be baffling. “Everything” is a bossa nova that never gets into the sunshine, and when she sings, “It’s crazy it’s boring/I’m falling I’m soaring,” she sums up the record’s virtues and shortcomings.Label: LOYAL DUTCHESS
[RATING: 2.5]

Suzy Bogguss sings well on Sweet Danger, but the material is so recessive as to be baffling. “Everything” is a bossa nova that never gets into the sunshine, and when she sings, “It’s crazy it’s boring/I’m falling I’m soaring,” she sums up the record’s virtues and shortcomings. Still, “Even If That Were True” is exquisite, and the simplest thing here-just her first-rate voice, piano and guitar.  It’s probably too much to ask this refugee from country music to record with, say, Arto Lindsay, but Bogguss could easily be Nashville’s answer to Bebel Gilberto-a purveyor of languid pop dreams.