On the surface, the idea sounds ill-advised: Chrissie Hynde—one of rock’s greatest voices, one of its most raw lyricists, most developed composers and as solid a rhythm guitarist as anyone not named Keith Richards—records a Pretenders album in Nashville, with Music City cats. Then “Alone Song,” with its typically contrarian Hynde lyric (“I like being … Continue reading Essential New Music: Pretenders’ “Alone”