TRULY exceptional. It is highly unusual for an artist’s first record to come out so supremely well.
Price is no teen starlet; the experience in her voice is hard won. The album title is an obvious nod to Loretta Lynn, and the back story, fashions and honky tonk trappings recall classic '60s and '70s country.
Price was initially rejected by the Nashville record labels before being swooped up by Jack White’s label. Fitting that a country outsider had the sharpest eyes in Music City.
Price has lived the life she sings about, losing a baby and spending time in jail. She sold her wedding ring to make this record at Sun Studios. Hands Of Time lays it all out and will be her signature song; a gorgeously sung tale of faith in the face of life gone bad.
While the band don’t put a foot wrong, Price is undeniably the light in this constellation; her voice both powerful, aching and on Tennessee Song, soulful and sensuous. A new star is born.
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