Amy McCarley - Amy McCarley (2011)

Amy McCarley is an Alabama singer-songwriter heavily influenced by performers such as Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch and Kate Campbell.
On her 11-track debut, she gives a barebones tour through 10 originals and a cover of Welch’s ‘Look at Miss Ohio’.
For the most part the songs are expressions of personal feeling, reflections on love, hope and dreams told in McCarley’s appropriately careworn voice.
McCarley’s first album is definitely a cut above most self-recorded singer-songwriter debuts, and should provide some musical nourishment to fans of female country bluegrass singers.