When she's not raising a family, fly fishing, snowboarding, TV presenting or campaigning to legalise marijuana, Nashville's Greta Gaines makes music.
For her fifth album, released on her own label, she says "I have finally found the sound that I've been chasing".
It's a shame she didn't also factor in time to come up with some decent cover art; the image she's chosen is perfectly dreadful.
The record keeps things simple; mainly just her on electric guitar and vocals assisted by co-producer Eric Fritsch on percussion and effects.
But don't expect any White Stripes vibe since her music is informed more by mainstream Southern pop-rock than old style blues; think Sheryl Crow or a raunchier version of Aimee Mann.
All the material is her own work except Rayland Baxter's Willie's Song #3 about a young man trying to keep up appearances while battling a drug addition.
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She says her songs are about love and loss but sex and longing nails it better.
Like a woman on heat, she sings of Pining Away, feeling Jaded and on The Quickening confesses "my bones ache" (I don't think she's singing about the effects of snowboarding!)
On Door 2 Door she declares "I'm in the mood" while on the grungy Good Side announces "you're still the feller who does it for me".
Gaines is plainly a force of nature with plenty of sexual energy to burn but this record she doesn't shed any light on what really makes her tick so there's not much that really holds the attention.
Greta Gaines' website
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