Erin McKeown has a beautiful voice, amongst the best that I have ever heard. I saw her live and her voice reminded me of Billy Holiday's. She plays great music on a variety of instruments. Unfortunately, she's a terrible lyricist.Consider the following (from her song "Softly, Moses"):"Lonely in the dark/Images creep past/Bright pink, purple, green /Blue and black/Despair oh holy day/We cross down sorrow's Way"Angst-ridden 14-year-old girls write better stuff than this. It's a shame, because the songs are impeccable acoustically. If McKeown did an album of other people's songs, I would probably buy it immediately.