Independent's Day Radio

Given her genteel demeanor and diminutive stature, it would be easy to mistake Claire Holley for a southern debutante rather than an astute artist with considerable talents as a singer, songwriter, performer and composer. Holley possesses an innate ability to make people feel at ease, and she captivates audiences when she combines her warm spirit with a beautifully natural way of singing. Over the last two decades, the Mississippi born and bred Holley has released several albums that range in style from intimate, acoustic settings to traditional hymns, children’s songs, holiday music and full band releases, but her new album, Time in the Middle, expands her sound into some new, sonically complex territory reminiscent of producer Pierre Marchand’s work with Sarah McLachlan. One of the more remarkable aspects about her new album is that this expansive sonic palette was created by just Holley and a pair of carefully selected multi-instrumentalists, Dan Phelps and Jonathan Kingham. The trio holed up in a world-cl