Consumer Guide Album

Margaret Glaspy: Echo the Diamond [ATO, 2023]
A calm, declarative California-to-NYC singer-songwriter who kept auditing guitar classes after her Berklee grant ran out is determined not to give up on this love thing either. "Between a rock and a hard place/I'll be your lily pad," she vows, and if you personally are the beneficiary of that promise don't let the chance pass. There's sweetness here, but also thought and the kind of intelligence that values the lubricious without getting swamped by it. Thirty-five she may be; jaded she's not. A-