Yearning and heartfelt, Courtney Marie Andrews’s new record Honest Songs is the sixth of her career and her most critically acclaimed to date. The album is folk and country through-and-through, replete with the familiar instrumentation of that genre: warm acoustics, mournful slide guitar, loose drumming, and Telecaster twang. Andrews has been playing shows and steadily releasing material since the age of 16. She’s also served as a backing musician for big names like Damien Jurado and (a little unexpectedly) Jimmy Eat World. The ten tracks of Honest Songs are a clear indication that she’s been putting her prodigious and hard-won [...]