Artist: Catherine Britt
Album: Home Truths
Label: Redrebel Records
Release Date: 1.15.21
Catherine Britt may seem like a newcomer to the modern country music scene but in truth she is a re-emerging lady with a history that includes a previous music life with around a dozen albums behind her in Nashville, where she was a buddy of the late, great Guy Clark, and a long-established career in the business in her homeland of Australia. With Home Truths, Britt delivers a powerful, punchy 12-track album that truly roars along at full throttle, pretty much from the get-go.
This is unashamed country music. Sure, it can probably be squeezed into the modern Americana end of the business, but it makes no apologies for being good, rollicking country music with a genuine edge and feeling.
It comes as little surprise to learn Britt has previously worked with many of the great names of modern music: Elton John, Keith Urban, fellow-Ozzie Tommy Emmanuel and country queen Dolly Parton. Home Truths positively explodes with quality, that unmistakable and slick Nashville studio sound and lyricism that perfectly matches her strongly resonant vocal delivery.
These days, there’s a deeply ingrained—and still growing—expectation for all songs to have some kind of “meaning,” a sense of self-importance and a hauntingly evocative revelatory nature at their heart. Britt, while evidently capable of meeting this expectation from the material here, also comfortably and confidently brushes it aside to deliver music that is simply good ol’ country music, the stuff historically heard on major US country radio shows; music that has bounce, flair, and makes you want to get up and sing along, bop-along and just have pure unfettered fun. Home Truths is a true delight.
—Iain Patience
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