Red House Records recording artist Claudia Schmidt's latest is "Bend in the River: Collected Songs." She's jazzy, spacey, Celtic, Big Band and bluesy - whatever she chooses, Schmidt does it all very well - must be that nearly four decades of experience. There's a quote on her album by Garrison Keillor: "When Claudia sings a song, it stays sung." It doesn't get much better clearer than that. Even though the jazzy stuff is not my thing, the bluesy "Pretty at the End" is a knockout.