Description
Delivering a concentrated dose of honesty, Girl I Used to Be chronicles Starr’s bumpy journey to a better life with remarkable understatement. Her concise country-folk songs feature easy melodies and spare backing; her singing, laced with a hint of a rasp, crosses Tom Petty’s twang and Kathleen Edwards’ quiet urgency and shies away from histrionics. You can practically hear Starr reining herself in, knowing economy will serve her story better than self-conscious melodrama.
