Music has a silent type of wonder that makes it seem like the music is talking to you in a one-on-one way and yet it somehow relates to something much larger, and that wonder is executed with such an easy grace in Courtney Jean- Cloudberry. The song does not simply start, but slowly comes like a person opening a door and letting a warm breeze flow into. In a few seconds, it encloses around you, tender and calm, as though it is aware of how to make you closer.
It is that beat of the heart, so warm and relaxed, so heedless, That you feel your shoulders fall and your breath come down. It is beckoning as a slow sunrise, without having to focus, it just draws you into its light. Hanging above it is the voice of Courtney, with all the sweetness that is not polished, but is sincere, as one tells you a story that she has kept in her heart all her life. She has a vulnerability in her tone, a mute courage, that kind that stays in your memory like a thing you had no idea you had forgotten.
This set-up is carried out with the satin delicacies of a person who places treasured objects in their place. The mix is filled with the acoustic and electric guitar which is like threads of light and light up and down one another. The entire song is held together by the rhythm section in a relaxed consistency without ever being overbearing, but simply steering the song on like a well-known hand in a crowded room.
Under the production and the musicianship there is something much more delicate and human. Cloudberry is a whisper in a dark room – a meditation on love that changes the way you are, makes you tender, teaches you something about yourself. You can feel Courtney pulling in and out towards and away all at once, and you can feel her drawing on the people that she loves, on those things that have transformed her, on the tenderness that will not be hurried.
It brings the narrativeness of country but extends into something modern and very personal, such as a journal entry with music. You do not hear it, you feel it sink into you, warm and smooth, as though one is dropping a blanket on your shoulders and not uttering a word. And Cloudberry is not merely delightful. It is a sweet radiance, whispering in the dark, a song you hear get into your heart and shine there a long time after it has ceased.
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