“Over the course of her six full-length albums, Kentucky singer-songwriter Joan Shelley has trafficked in the strain of intimate, earthy folk and country that calls to mind everyone from Nick Drake to Iron & Wine to Gillian Welch. Her latest, Like the River Loves the Sea, feels simultaneously grounded and even more expansive as it tracks its way through the changing seasons of a relationship. “A ha”
“Though Joan Shelley is a folk traditionalist, she's spent her career playing with its form. On Over and Even, her third and best album, she returns to something closer to her origins to make as compelling a record as that genre has seen.”
