10 years and five number ones since he moved to Nashville, Davis has learned and lost enough to make a reflective second album.
On Living in a Song, the duo refuse to be confined to one style.
Consistency hasn’t been Chase Rice’s forte in years gone by. I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go to Hell is an exception – a largely solid offering that feels as much like a healing process for Rice as it is for his dedicated fans.
Anyone who loves the layered storytelling of John Prine and Nanci Griffith or novelists like Anne Tyler will immediately warm to Homemaker.
Queen of Me is adventurous, a bit weird and delightfully imperfect.
War lays bare her psyche, alchemizing personal struggles into a sonic guidebook to survival.