Best known so far as one-third of the edgy country trio Pistol Annies (along with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley), whose debut album "Hell on Heels" was a sensation in 2001, Ms. Monroe never fell out of demand as a songwriting collaborator and backupsinger in the years between records of her own.
But perhaps its biggest experiment of all was taking a cute pop tune from the '60s called "Spanish Harlem" and asking a white British singer to perform it, with only a 1932 vintage guitar as backup.