"Heidi Talbot's latest album is borne from separation and adversity - recorded in a home in the process of being sold as she negotiated her split from partner John McCusker, with whom she had lived and worked for more than a decade. Still, she's never had a hard time in attracting talented accomplices and guests - the likes of Tim O'Brien and Mark Knopfler graced 2013's Angels Without Wings, and for her sixth solo set she takes a transatlantic voyage from Celtic folk to Americana and country heartbreak, with guest turns from Knopfler, Appalachian fiddler and producer Dirk Powell, Scottish fiddler Seonaid Aitken and Dire Straits' keyboardist Guy Fletcher among others. Her beautiful voice is on great form, tackling life's emotional hardships and revelations, right from the off with album opener 'Sing It for a Lifetime', written, she says, in 15 minutes - although as Powell ripostes, it was in her all along".