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If your radio's summer jams no longer make you drop it like it's hot, try some alternative music from these women who offer rock-filtered soul, barebones blues, and go-go wired R & B
Lizz Wright On her triumphant and folksy sophomore CD, Dreaming Wide Awake (Verve/Forecast), Lizz Wright takes us to a place thick with thumbplucked bass, harmonicas and soul. The 25-year-old chanteuse from Georgia gets her honest down-home sound from performing in her local church since childhood. Songs like "Hit the Ground" and "Old Man" are gut-bucket blues made mellow by Wrighf s...