Annie Gallup - Bookish (2019) Hi-Res

Annie: Bookish was written and recorded during my first winter on the coast of Maine. It was bitterly cold outside and there was ice and blowing snow, and I hibernated upstairs in my writing alcove and downstairs in Peter Gallway’s studio to work on this record – solo, live-in-the-studio, unguarded, intense, focused. Peter mixed the recording, beautifully, with great skill and great ears.

"Tough and literate, funny and sensual, [it] is an adventure through some alternative world in which songwriters really are poets and storytellers, alert to the rhythms of language and life, alive to nuance and humor and infinite fallibility. With her smoky yet quizzical voice, her deft phrasing, and her fierce intelligence, Gallup is an engaging but unpretentious performer... - Jeremy Schlosberg, LINN blog