Carrie Underwood's "Just a Dream" was domestic melodrama at its redneck best, a Douglas Sirk mini-epic, with that heartbreaking voice that moves somewhere between singing and talking, that skates on the edge of total collapse. The one line takeaway "a pregnant war widow at 18," says more about the murderous and particularity inept American foreign policy than all of Nashville in the last eight years, and I am glad that someone as mainstream as Underwood is finally speaking angrily about such senseless loss. —Anthony Easton

one comment, nashville scene, not bad.