On her last solo break from The Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde recorded an album of Bob Dylan covers, accompanied by guitarist James Walbourne. The arrangements were simple, but you could feel the depth of her understanding of the songs in her voice. Four years on she’s released another covers album, this time songs by different artists, sung as duets with different singers.
Here too you sense her relationship with the songs. An interesting selection, mostly on the slow side, there’s retro pop (‘Love Letters’, with Garbage’s Shirley Manson; ‘It’s Only Love’, with Julian Lennon); R&B (‘Me & Mrs Jones’, with k.d. lang; ‘Every Little Bit Hurts’, with Carleen Anderson); and psychedelic folk (‘Dolphins’, with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan). The project grew from…

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