“Kentucky singer-songwriter Joan Shelley has a dulcet voice and a mellifluous way about her Americana. But her work – informed, not bound, by folk and country – is often more clear-eyed and unsentimental than its prettiness suggests. “I drank their milk and wore their hide,” she observes typically on Amberlit Morning, an understated rural meditation off The Spur, her latest outing. Bill Callahan gu”
“Accompanied by a wide range of verdant textures, the Kentucky songwriter deepens the emotional landscape of her earthy, reflective folk music.”
