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Self-released and self-produced solo album from the Low Lily singer, with guest musicians that include dobro player Andy Hall from The Infamous Stringdusters, pedal steel legend Pete and cellist Natalie Haas, the album takes its title from the idea that, as she puts it, “Each song tells a story through its lyrics, but also through its musical arc, its history and my connection to it.”

Comprising nine songs that mix originals and covers, it variously touches on themes of love, death, urban live, seafaring and the current social environment, opening with the first of the five self-penned numbers, When The Waters Rise which, featuring filigree fingerpicked guitar and  Corey DiMario on double bass, is about holding on troubled times and everything you know is disappearing, a reminder that “home is more than four walls and a door”.
It’s followed by the first cover, Simmons adding her name to the list of those who’ve taken on Sandy Denny’s Who Knows Where The Time Goes and not been overwhelmed by the challenge, this a gentle, piano and steel-backed twilight-tinted reading with an acoustic guitar solo from husband and bandmate Flynn Cohen. There are three further covers, the second being a twin fiddle Celtic coloured arrangement of the lament My Love Lies In The Ground, from fiddle and banjo player Dirk Powell, not a name you may recognise but who was a member of Balfa Toujours and has worked with the likes of the Tim O’Brien Band, with whom he recorded the song on their eponymous 2019 release.

The other two sit back to back towards the end of the album, first being a fiddle folksy faithful version of Joni Mitchell’s Night In The City complete with the descending vocal scales, the other a breathlessly sung banjo and mandolin reinvention of the Isleys’ classic This Old Heart Of Mine.

Tracks:  
01 When the Waters Rise
02 Who Knows Where the Time Goes
03 Poets
04 My Love Lies in the Ground
05 Adventurer
06 Sailing in to Shore
07 Night in the City
08 This Old Heart of Mine
09 Home from the Storm

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