Pam Tillis
Put Yourself in My Place
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AMG Review of Put Yourself in My Place
Brian Mansfield
All Music GuideThe album that established Pam Tillis as a performer in her own right has a raditional country base cut with luegrass, folk, and ock. It all creates the same sort of mixed breed she sings about in "Melancholy Child": "You take a black Irish temper/Some solemn Cherokee/A Southern sense of humor/And you got someone like me." Her characters are the awkward dancers of "I've Seen Enough to Know": bruised, tentative, and needing to be cajoled back to love. Even the throwaway songs are of a high standard; the best ones ("Maybe It Was Memphis," "Don't Tell Me What to Do") are truly enticing.
 "Put Yourself in My Place")
