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Article: Nashville adds some gloss,but McKenna retains her grace
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2007
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CD Review
Lori McKenna's life story - now a company-sanctioned, Oprah-
certified backstory - is a good one: a 38-year-old plumber's wife and
mother of five from Stoughton, Mass., is discovered by country
superstar Faith Hill, who records three of McKenna's songs for a
chart-topping album. Hill then takes her out as opening act on a
massive concert tour and enlists her husband, Tim McGraw, to co-
produce the major-label debut. Warner Bros. is milking it: In the
glossy press materials, McKenna's minivan - loaded with 150,000
carpool-ferrying miles - is referred to with something comically
close to reverence.
But the fairy tale only takes you so far. McKenna's superb new
album, "Unglamorous," ...