Towhee Records
2006
Gravity | Love
About This Album
Gravity Love not only serves as the album's title but also as a good way to describe Sandra McCracken's songs. The weight of love and the pull of emotions resonate throughout her tunes, be it physical, platonic, or spiritual love. A songwriter in the confessional vein, McCracken states in "Doubt" "speak it plain or leave it out," but she actually balances from-the-heart sentiments with vividly turned phrases nicely. "Innocence, we pass it down/Like corduroys with the knees worn out" articulates her love woes in a keen and imaginatively observed way, in "Long Way Away." Later on, in "Traincar," she uses the phrase "hot water screaming over the silence of my house" to describe the loneliness that comes after a relationship ends. Her songwriting restraint is readily apparent in "Goodbye George," her tribute to the George Harrison. Instead of a flowery eulogy to her late idol, she uses Harrison's lyrics and life history to create a cleverly constructed pastiche that conveys her sense of loss over his death. McCracken's work displays a Midwesterner's sense of modesty, so it's not surprising that the Nashville-based performer was born in Missouri.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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