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o longer hamstrung by the pressures of a major label that tried to shoehorn her into ill-fitting mainstream pop stardom, self-proclaimed "Funky White Bitch" Nikka Costa finds a far more appropriate home on the re-launched Stax label for her new album Pebble to a Pearl. While the best moments from 2001's solid Everybody Got Their Something (which plays in retrospect as a harbinger of the more fully-realized aesthetic that co-producer Mark Ronson found on Amy Winehouse's Back to Black) and 2005's underwhelming can'tneverdidnothin' were those that showcased her potential as a modern-day Betty Davis, Costa and her husband/producer Justin Stanley...