Getting past this disc’s first two songs is a trial. The harmonized-dobro opening lines of the title track are gutless and sugary, an instant turnoff, and the rest of the arrangement is pre-fab country pop. "Walk On By" also sports the glitzy clichés of contemporary Nashville, though Beth Stevens’s lead vocal brings real personality to its well-worn lyric themes and heavy-handed musical tics.

Then the good stuff begins — a blissful helping of East Tennessee–mountain close-harmony singing with relaxed, back-porch accompaniment. Beth and April Stevens are among the best current practitioners of this lovely tradition, a style on which fraternal teams from the Wilburns to the Whitsteins have made a greater mark. But the Stevens sisters bring a delightful and distinctly feminine quaver to their arching phrases and sweet, high tones that plays equally well on new compositions like Kim Richey’s "Run to the Well," traditional material, and even Lynyrd Skynyrd’s "Tuesday’s Gone." The key is letting the purity of their voices command the arrangement, a rule violated by the chart ambitions of "Little by Little" and "Walk On By." Guest Dolly Parton’s second harmony to her own "I’ll Never Say Goodbye," where April sings lead, is an aural treat that makes her influence on the sisters obvious.