"Yeah, a lot of the correspondence I'm getting is from men and they're writing in personal ad form, which is kind of fun," she laughs on the telephone line from Nashville. "The whole newspaper concept of the CD artwork was really cool and the video we shot on the bus was a real laugh as well. I brought a couple of my girlfriends in and they were my chick singers. They had to keep straightening us out because we were laughing so much."

While Wright comes across as happy-go-lucky on the song 'Single White Female', the rest of the CD reveals a deeper person who is not reluctant to share her emotions. The second single, 'It Was', is a moving statement about the healing power of love, while 'The Fire' finds her in a much more torrid romantic state. One wonders which song is closer to the real Wright.

"There's some of me in all of the songs but I'm definitely the chick singing the song in 'The Fire'. The line "water is nice but it's fire that keeps you warm" says it all for me. I'm a very intense person; I'm a Scorpio so I'm kind of a freak in that manner. I have high highs and low lows."

Wright was first signed in Nashville as a songwriter and she chips in with a couple of dandies on her latest effort. 'Some Kind Of Something' sums up her feeling about a guy she went out on a date with ("It wasn't love but it was some kind of something"), and 'Picket Fences is about the husband she doesn't want, at least for now.

"Picket Fences is about the way we qualify our lives," she explains. "If you don't have money you don't want a Mercedes -Benz. I'm a person without a husband and without the perfect 2.3 kids so I say 'who needs that?' It's human nature and I have to do that to maintain focus and be a positive force. If I wanted a husband and a picket fence right now I promise you, no matter how busy I am, I'd have them. At this point those are not the most important things to me."

What is important is having friends in high places and Wright called upon Vince Gill, Patty Loveless and Alison Kraus to lend their vocal assistance to the record. They are cast in supporting roles only and never threaten to steal the limelight. Wright has her own distinct voice, something it took some time to find after breaking into the business as a mimic at the Opryland Theme Park.

"When I worked at Opryland I was paid to sing and sound like Loretta Lynn," she says. "The best thing I did for developing my own sound was to write my own songs. No matter how much you try and sing a Loretta Lynn song like yourself, you've got that inherent knowledge of what her recording sounds like. I can still hear a lot of Connie Smith and Loretta in my voice but I'm proud of that."

While Wright's voice is certainly her greatest asset, her physical attributes certainly won't hinder her career. In fact, the disc's photos suggest she may be giving Shania and her sexy mid-riff a run for her money. Wright's strappy stilettos ("Of course they were bought at Wal-Mart") are bound to attract the attention of foot fetishists everywhere.

"Actually, the foot shot was just to make my brother laugh. He's in the Marine Corps and he called me about my last record because there was a picture of me barefoot. He said that the Marine Corps had collectively taken a vote that decided that I should never show my bare feet again because of my gnarly toes. That picture was put on the new disc at the last minute and my brother got the joke. However, if people with foot fetishes are attracted, that's great."