Anna Lynch – Apples in the Fall
Self Released – 13 March 2020
Born in Calfornia, resident in North Carolina and musically blooded in Alaska, it’s been seven years since Anna Lynch’s excellent but little known eponymous debut. Apples In The Fall now breaks that silence, a five-track acoustic EP of heartbreak rural Americana sung in a classic emotive warble. She opens Apples in the Fall with the title track, a journey through wistful nostalgia revisiting old haunts now fallen into disrepair and decline coloured by slide guitar inspired by revisiting her hometown of Sebastopol.
Change also underpins Hotter Than Hades, a standout slow shuffle waltz about love in the time of Tinder as she sings of not being judgemental and how “He touches my backbone, and proves that I’ve got one, so I’ll pick a fight”. Accompanied by fiddle, the equally slow swaying the yearningly sung Do You Miss Me Yet pretty much speaks for itself while, the longest cut at just over four minutes, Bitter Bones rides a vintage Cash-style chug, mandolin in the background, on a number about being bruised by love but getting back up and doing it again without living on regrets.
Banjo enters the scene to join the sawing fiddle for the final, backwoods bluegrass-flecked Beers In Jars, a rework of a number from her debut where she serves up the wisdom that, when you’re feeling down and love doesn’t come calling, then “boys in bars and beer in jars keep the blues at bay”. If you’ve not discovered her yet, then do yourself a favour and taste of the fruit here, it’ll leave you wanting her to come back soon with a full orchard.
https://annalynch.bandcamp.com/album/apples-in-the-fall
https://www.annalynchmusic.com
Photo Credit: Jessie McCall