In Brief

***Reba McEntire, “So Good Together,” MCA Nashville. Maybe McEntire is digging deeper, or maybe it just sounds like it compared to the increasingly glib material her sister country-pop divas are selling. But this outing explores how people struggle to make love work, in ways that are generally more touching than melodramatic, and which often tap her skill at country soulfulness.

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