The spur

"Accompanied by a wide range of verdant textures, the Kentucky songwriter deepens the emotional landscape of her earthy, reflective folk music".

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"It stands as a manifesto for an artist determined to give voice to the full sweep of human experience. On The Spur, Shelley captures the ache and the sweetness, the loss and the love, the coming and going of it all, with greater scale and skill than ever before".

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"Pretty but unsentimental reflections on putting down roots inform the singer-songwriter's elegant seventh album".

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