Bay Area singer/songwriter Sonya Cotton’s voice is confident and assured with a pristine and sweet cadence on her full-length release Red River. Cotton’s compositions are deeply personal, drawing upon dreams, family, the natural world, and the deterioration of all of these. Cotton weaves her delicate vocals and weightless melodies with guitar and the occasional piano, drums, and backing vocals into gentle country folk songs. Red River is engaging and gorgeous and if you’re a fan of Gillian Welch, I would recommend giving Sonya Cotton a listen.