Amanda Shires album review: 'Down Fell the Doves'

Like Alison Krauss, Amanda Shires was a teenage fiddle prodigy before folks realized she was a special singer, too. Shires's voice may not match Krauss's once-in-a-generation soprano, but unlike her predecessor, Shires also is a terrific songwriter, and that's the key to the triumph of her new album, "Down Fell the Doves." Her songs often resemble twisted fairy tales for adults, where devils inhabit the weak-minded, a tiger claw makes you bulletproof and a woman can fly to the top of a tree like...