Tift Merritt Traveling Alone (Colv) (Gate) (Aniv)

"The alt-country chanteuse strips things down on her raw fifth album, letting her aching vocals and bewitching twang do all the convincing..." -- Grade: A-
Paste (magazine) - "Her plainspoken songs are both straightforward and ambiguous, as though no one emotion -- grief, heartbreak, happiness, detachment -- is absolute. And she sings those songs in a voice that sounds warm and sympathetic..."