ROAD TRIP, Y’ALL! Put all your best leggings and t-shirts in a backpack, make a sweet-ass mixtape with some Tom Petty on it, jump in my old hooptie and let’s hit the highway! Caroline Cotter’s latest collection of introspective Americana, Home on the River, captures this bright momentum of a summer journey. The hope, the possibilities and the sense of adventure that accompanies the leaving for a trip; and the wistful longing for the contents of the rear view mirror that strikes the moment you get just a little bit too far from home. 

It seems this travel juju is no accident; Cotter has traveled all over the world, and has toured with her music in 31 countries on five continents (tangential question, though: how does an artist in this day and age afford that much travel?). Lyrically, she explores her roots, family and sense of place in the world on nine introspective mid-tempo acoustic songs and one Woody Guthrie cover.