Playlist: What's Brian Mansfield listening to?
Ten intriguing tracks found in the week's listening:
Any Time at All, Bryan Adams
Early Beatles tune works surprisingly well as a Summer of '69-style rave-up on Adams' Tracks of My Years covers album.
Anyone Else, Blake Shelton
In a revealing moment, the usually jocular singer expresses bewildered pain, apparently from another singer's put-downs.
Protection, Lucinda Williams
Williams seeks shelter from enemies of love and rock 'n' roll in a churning Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone rocker.
Rise Up Singing, Trigger Hippy
Supergroup with Joan Osborne, Jackie Greene and Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman locks into a relaxed, swaying groove.
Down South, Lady Antebellum
On 747, Lady Antebellum creates a country-pop manifestation of "American by birth, Southern by the grace of God."
Days of Wine and Roses, Robin Gibb
A sweet, elegiac melody leads 50 St. Catherine's Drive, final recordings made before the Bee Gees member's 2012 death.
When Sunny Gets Blue, Herb Alpert
This torchy trumpet-and-piano number from In the Mood shows Alpert, 79, still has an unparalleled way with a melody.
Mi Amigo Cubano, Raul Midón
The blind singer/guitarist finally releases his Bill Withers co-write, first teased in the 2009 documentary Still Bill.
Sugar in My Bowl, Tift Merritt
Merritt conveys tremulous desire in her cover for The Empress of the Blues, a tribute to early jazz great Bessie Smith.
Uncloudy Day, Marty Stuart
On the "Sunday'' side of Stuart's Saturday Night & Sunday Morning release, the Staple Singers take a hillbilly to church.