MINNIE DRIVER: SEASTORIES

Friday May 2,2008

Robert Spellman

DRIVER’S take on first-person soul-baring is better traced back to Emmylou Harris than Joni Mitchell.

The singer/actress seems hell-bent on rootsy conformity rather than plunging into the unknown, as Mitchell used to do.

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The songs aren’t bad, though not particularly hooky, and Driver’s voice frays nicely on cue to Ryan Adams’s backing band, The Cardinals.

OUR VERDICT: 3/5
(Rounder)