The Molasses Gospel

"Raised between the Georgia heat and the bitter Maine winters, it is a wonder Amelia Jackie hasn’t yet choked on the harshness and sweetness of her songs. Moving between simplicity and wrenching complexity, her guitar work and songwriting, in the southern vernacular of her childhood and the language of trying to figure out where you're from, is by turns mean or soft, guttural, sudden or gentle, and comes out wet to a polish. Complicated and careful in their restraint and messy in their mess