Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann songs have a literary quality to them--sharp, spare short stories set to music--so it was probably inevitable that she would one day make a concept album, the musical equivalent of a novella. The Forgotten Arm (SuperEgo), her fifth solo release, is exactly that: a dozen songs that tell, rather loosely, the story of John and Caroline as they meet, fall in love and road trip across America. As Mann was writing the songs over the last year and a half she had an image in her head of a couple ultimately headed for trouble. "The guy's a Vietnam... more