Hailing from South Carolina, singer-songwriter Jennifer Goree is one of the rarest of musical breeds. Like her contemporaries – Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Kim Richey and Iris Dement – Goree’s soul is pure country that expresses itself in a variety of settings, from folk to bluegrass to honky-tonk to countrified pop. As a writer, she is nearly peerless; her empathy with the characters she creates is uncanny. She never chooses the obvious, but instead seeks the overlooked moment where emptiness and pain give way to the magic of possibility for her protagonists. Goree the singer expresses depth, emotion and passion cleanly and subtly, allowing her elegant and graceful lyrics to emanate from the song confidently.

Thom Jurek

Ann Arbor, School Kids Records