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A reimagining of Kim Richey's breakthrough album and a nostalgic release from Jim Lauderdale show where country and Americana music can take us in 2020.

There's a feeling of fine control you get when you listen to a Kim Richey album. Her songs dig outward in two directions from country/americana, into both folk and pop. And her silvery vocals, burnished with a constant, cool vibrato, lack twangy affectation, sounding almost weirdly non-manipulative – to paradoxically emotional effect.