DEAR GOD! If you buy only one cd this year, I'M BEGGING YOU, MAKE IT THIS ONE:

BETTYE LAVETTE 'I've Got My Own Hell To Raise

This woman covers Aimee Mann, Lucinda Williams, Joan Armatrading, Rosanne Cash, DOLLY PARTON, Fiona Apple AND MORE and O.W.N.S. each one of these songs in her own beautiful, heartbreaking way.

OH MY WORD this is a masterpiece that i would LOVE to burn for others, but it DESERVES to be bought in a store so she can get her percentage of the pie.