• Lisa Matassa
  

  Lisa Matassa
  “Somebody’s Baby”

• “Somebody’s Baby”
• It Is What It Is Records

Country at its finest — that’s what this latest EP release from country singer Lisa Matassa is.

The 8-song CD is a mix of new songs and covers, and a re-mix of two previous releases from this Nashville-based artist. Matassa actually was operatically-trained, and the power developed in her voice blows through the Dolly Parton hit “I Will Always Love You.” It’s a tough song, and most covers fail miserably, excepting, of course, the late Whitney Houston’s version. Matassa knocks it out of the proverbial ballpark.

The clippy “Wouldn’t You Like To Know” is a great opposite to the poignant “Somebody’s Baby,” for which there is a soon-to-be-released video on CMT television.

Matassa’s voice would have been perfect if she had chosen a career as a pop or folk singer instead, but her roots are deep in country music soil, and her voice just moves that love along naturally.

Matassa ends the EP project, as she has on previous CDs, with always well-liked “The Christmas Song.”

This is a extraordinary album, recorded  with intense feeling.