In Brief

* * Tanya Tucker, “Can’t Run From Yourself,” Liberty. With a voice that tears like a rusty saw blade, Tucker has been, and remains, most effective on rowdy honky-tonk numbers--love songs here veer too often into melodrama or bombast. One exception is the tastefully restrained ballad “Half the Moon.” Her bouncy, R&B-tinged; duet with Delbert McClinton, “Tell Me About It,” is the standout.

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