Rachel Brooke The Loneliness In Me (CD)

(Mal Records) 12 tracks, digipack
The Loneliness In Me, her latest solo album, with a sound reminiscent of the golden era of Nashville, with a decidedly twenty-first century sensibility.
The twelve songs are meditations on the wild strangeness of loss: the loss of love and the familiar, but also the old self, direction and dreams.

The collection has the beauty and charm of a shape-shifter: part classical country songwriting, rooted in the tradition of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, part post-millennial mysticism echoing from the forests of northern Michigan about the why and whereabouts of their stay.