This is an album scored through with authenticity

Following 2023 breakout Time Ain’t Accidental, the best songs here are when Williamson strips back country music, rebuilding it as something familiar yet different

Like good whiskey, Williamson doesn't need fancy production

these deftly weighted narratives posit Williamson as a nomadic soul caught between er adopted LA and Texan suburbs of home, with Nashville as a loose spiritual fix. Print edition only

She might feel off-centre, but these songs expertly hit their emotional targets. Print edition only

A more confident, self-assured songwriter is torn between two very different worlds, where her truest home might actually be that stretch of highway that shuttles her back and forth

Torn between Texas and Topanga but fully herself, the songwriter sounds at home in the outlaw country idiom on an intimate, searching new record produced by Shooter Jennings