The third album in
Tracy Nelson's '90s comeback,
Move On finds her sharing the microphone with the likes of
Delbert McClinton,
Phoebe Snow,
Bonnie Raitt, and
Maria Muldaur (the last three on "Ladies' Man"), singers with whom she shares a taste in bluesy rock with a country tinge. She is in typically fine voice on a set of songs more notable for the tasty playing on them than for their distinctiveness. The best among them is
Nelson's own "Playin' It Safe" (one of her four compositions) which has a gospel feel to support the lyric's sage advice. Blues fans who caught up with
Nelson on 1993's
In the Here and Now or 1995's
I Feel So Good may find this album, with its pop, rock, and R&B elements, a bit eclectic for their taste, but fans of
Bonnie Raitt who long for her earlier, grittier music may find a new heroine. ~ William Ruhlmann