Journalist, Author & Syndicated Columnist
This spare duo delivers a cohesive, 15-track follow-up to 1996’s As Good as Dead. Equal parts sardonic brat (”All the Kids Are Right”), realist (”She Hates My Job”), and dreamer (”Lucky Time”), vocalist Scott Lucas also cranks out the best crunchy guitar licks since Cheap Trick’s heyday. Grade: A-
Cathy Rigby is a two-time Olympian and a Tony Award nominee. But ask the former gymnast what frightens her the most and she’ll answer without missing a beat. “The thought of my 16-year-old daughter driving . . . alone,” Rigby said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. “I’ve been through it before, but you never really get used to it.”