Lynn Anderson: Live at the Renaissance Center

I beg your pardon? Lynn Anderson's still around? In this 2004 concert taped at Dickson, Tennessee's Renaissance Center, the 58-year-old Anderson and a crack band tear through a parade of country, bluegrass, and pop hits—16 in an hour. For the most part, these are other people's hits—Anderson saves her own 1971 breakout tune, Joe South's "Rose Garden," for later in the set—including everything from The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" to Ian & Sylvia's "Someday Soon" (a megahit for Judy Collins) and even The Carpenters' "Top of the World." Her voice, never really a one-of-a-kind instrument to begin with, hasn't changed much, but Anderson lacks the personality or charisma to really carry this concert—presented in Dolby Digital stereo—even with a sympathetic audience and a solid band headed by pianist Buddy Skipper and multi-instrumentalist Robin Ruddy (showcased on the instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and the crowd-pleasing closer, "Rocky Top"). Anderson made a whole career out of "Rose Garden," but that one song does not a DVD make. Aud: P. (M. Moore)