Goodnight Rhonda Lee is hardly Atkins' first stylistic excursion into the past, but here, having an audibly sharp focus, a lot on her mind, and a leave-it-all-on-tape performance ethic make for her strongest impression since her debut.
Everything on Goodnight Rhonda Lee is immediate. Throughout, Atkins’s lyrics eschew metaphor in favor of a more confessional mode, and her arrangements are punchy and direct.
A little bit country, a whole lotta soul, from the dirty stomp of "Brokedown Luck" to the breezy pop of "Sleepwalking," a good deal of Goodnight Rhonda Lee would've been at home on '70s pop radio.
#19 | / | American Songwriter |
/ | AllMusic |