For those unaware, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson is set to release her 10th studio album, Just A Poet, on May 24th, 2024, via Panda Cave Records.

The award-winning songwriter has again teamed up with producer Jim Bryson (Kathleen Edwards, Skydiggers), who produced her 2020 release, Just Words, and the result is an album of sounds and songs with a distinctly indie flavor, tied together by well-crafted lyrics and her trademark whiskey-soaked alto.

The album shines with clever poetry, wrapped up in tasteful, textured, contemporary production.

“I had a lot of fun self-producing and recording my last album with Blair Michael Hogan,” Hanson recalls. “Ice Cream in November was all about experimentation and learning, and I pushed myself outside my comfort zone, both in terms of the production as well as the songwriting itself. On this latest album, I was ready to go back to more familiar territory and let someone else I trusted drive the production bus.”

Joining Hanson and Bryson (who played acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, percussion, and contributed backing vocals) in the studio were Blair Michael Hogan (acoustic guitar, electric guitar), Philippe Charbonneau (bass), and Marshall Bureau (drums), and Emma Lamontagne, Tara Holloway, and Ken Yates all provided backing vocals.

1. Outlaw Lover
2. Just a Little Bit
3. Princess and Her Pea
4. Just a Poet
5. Can’t Let Go
6. Spray Paint
7. Sort Of
8. About Yesterday
9. Weeds
10. Light in Me
11. Rubik’s Cube
12. Halfway Whole

This imaginative, impassioned and wholly evoking new recording opens on the ____________ of Outlaw Lover and the _____________ of Just a Little Bit, and then we get brought forth the _____________ of Princess and Her Pea, the _______________ of Just a Poet, and they are followed by the ______________ of Can’t Let Go and the _____________ of Spray Paint.

Along next is the ______________ of Sort Of and the _____________ of About Yesterday, and they are in turn followed by the __________ of Weeds, the ______________ of Light in Me, the album rounding out on the _____________ of Rubik’s Cube, closing on the _______________ of Halfway Whole.

Musicians:
Lynne Hanson - lead vocals, backing vocals
Jim Bryson - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, wurlitzer, melotron, percussion, backing vocals

Blair Michael Hogan - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Philippe Charbonneau - bass
Marshall Bureau - drums
Emma Lamontagne - backing vocals
Tara Holloway - backing vocals
Ken Yates - backing vocals

Official Purchase Link

www.lynnehanson.com