The Best Pop-Country of 2007

By Josh Timmermann

Purists may turn up their noses at pop-country, but it produced more top-shelf music this past year than the stricter formal traditions on which it draws. [14 December 2007]

Kelly Willis: Translated From Love

By David Pyndus

On Willis' first album in five years, she tackles Lust for Life-era Pop and completes an album of simple beauty and friendly beasts ("Teddy Boys" and "Success"), winding up with the most unusual album of her career. [28 June 2007]

Kelly Willis: Easy

By John Kenyon

Kelly Willis, What I Deserve

By Sarah Zupko