Product Description Ori Release '02, Second album from Seatlle singer songwriter, produced by Blasters' Dave Alvin and with guest Peter Buck. Includes two well-chosen covers - Jesse Colin Young's "Darkness, Darkness" and Moby Grape's achingly sad "8:05,". Amazon.com A moody, melancholy singer with a haunting voice, Christy McWilson won well-deserved plaudits for her 2000 debut, The Lucky One. Her follow-up, Bed of Roses, doesn't plow any new ground, but it's just as appealing, with soul-baring confessions set to surprisingly upbeat country-tinged pop played by producer Dave Alvin, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, the Young Fresh Fellows' Scott McCaughey (McWilson's husband), and others. McWilson used to sing with the Seattle alt-country band the Picketts, but as a solo artist, she has more in common with Sandy Denny than Patsy Cline. If you didn't already know that McWilson suffers from depression, it wouldn't take very long to figure out: the sad "Sheep Song," the bleak "Bed of Roses," and the wistful "Not a Day Goes By" all deal with the pain and suffering of madness. Even her choice of covers--Moby Grape's "8:05" and the Youngbloods' "Darkness, Darkness"--reveal McWilson's penchant for misery. Yet for all its doom and gloom, Bed of Roses is a singular pleasure. --David Hill