With her fourth studio album, Freedom, Melissa Ferrick kicks and tears at the constraints her chosen life as a musician have set upon her. Being a tormented artist is apparently not that easy, neither internally nor externally. It obviously wreaks havoc on the inner emotional realm to have a need to create and to live by those creations. Having avoided the pitfalls of egocentricity thus far in her songwriting, Ferrick falls into that void a little on this effort, which is forgivable in the grand evolutionary scheme of an artist as talented as this one. Includes “Some Kinda Nerve,” “Little Love,” “Win ‘Em Over,” and “Drive.” – Kelly McCartney