ALBUM REVIEW: Charlie Marie Finds Herself in the Great Unknown on ‘Signs’
A voice like Charlie Marie’s doesn’t come along too often, but when people were floored by it in 2021 upon release of her phenomenal, hard-won debut Ramble On, she wasn’t prepared for the reverberations. As her golden-throated country songs were finally catching on, her
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A voice like Charlie Marie’s doesn’t come along too often, but when people were floored by it in 2021 upon release of her phenomenal, hard-won debut Ramble On, she wasn’t prepared for the reverberations. As her golden-throated country songs were finally catching on, her personal life was falling apart. So, she did what any artist does in moments like this: she ran. But as it happens, when you run away, you’re running toward something, too, and in this case, it was her anticipated follow-up, Signs, independently releasing this Friday.
Those earworm hooks and impressive vocal runs to rival Linda Ronstadt’s are just as present as they were in her last batch, but there’s a newfound swagger and ease in them this time around. Chronicling a road of self-discovery she followed all the way from her hometown of Rhode Island to Alaska and back again, Signs is a statement record from an artist with two feet now firmly planted on the ground.
