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Ruthie and the Wranglers

Someday

Long a mainstay of the D.C.-area roots scene, Ruthie and the Wranglers have always seemed worthy of wider acclaim. That doesn’t change with “Someday,” an album that refines and expands the band’s sound without diminishing its lively personality. Singer and chief songwriter Ruth Logsdon remains a charismatic blend of twangy spitfire and deep-blue balladeer, one minute delivering an admonition in honky-tonk fashion (“Someday”) and the next letting her vulnerability show on a standout country weeper (“For Cryin’ Out Loud”). Take away: Expanding roots

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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Kris Karnopp ([email protected])