 | Author: Kentsoul (pittsburgh, pa.. | Someday, Bear Family Records is going to do one of their big, pricey box sets on this lady. While all the hollywood-buffed “bra country” singers whine and pine, Nikki Lane strolls through All Or Nothin’ with a grin and an attitude. She manages to wring the whiskey out of her voice long enough to coo her way through “I don’t Care” like an anti-matter clone of Skeeter Davis, then turn up the gas for the Loretta Lynn-gone dark shuffle of “Man Up” and then set the whole thing on fire with the white-trash funky-abandon of “Sleep With a Stranger” “you. Nikki Lane hasn’t hit the mainstream yet, but when she does, you’ll be able to hear the crash. | 91 |