
While spent much of the three years since “By the Way, I Forgive You” seeming ready for the country - co-founding the Highwomen co-fashioning Tanya Tucker’s comeback - there are only trace amounts of that inclination in the new record.

If reverse-engineering your own genetic heritage were possible, Carlile might refashion herself into the love child of Elton John and Joni Mitchell, and you hear a lot of both branches of the spiritual family tree here.

Fans of the singer-songwriter sensibilities of the 1970s will especially find a lot to love in the rich variety of material in “In These Silent Days,” which, under the expert co-production of Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings, certainly sounds analog- era, however it was recorded.
