Dig the guitar flourish on “Like The Thunder,” off Joan Shelley’s LP The Spur. It grabs your attention like the drunk uncle at a holiday dinner table, livening up the relatively clean production with a little grease and grime. It comes and goes, returning for a brief encore in the closing moments of the track.

Joan Shelley has a sweet country voice that sounds right at home in hometown Louisville, Kentucky. Not the glitzy, glammy type of country, more like the folkier variety that hardly needs more than two or three players, a small stage, and a good crowd.

Speaking of a good crowd, there’s a notable list of contributors sitting in for spots on this record, which lends the album the sweet air of an all-night country jammer at your favorite whiskey hole. Come on by and have a sip.

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