Time Well Spent
Self-Released, 2021
8/10
The rising songstress Lilly Winwood might be a youngster, but she delivers like a seasoned vet on Time Well Spent, where Robbie Crowell, Larissa Maestro, Joe Andrews and Kevin Black, among others, help flesh out the coming of age tunes.
Winwood starts the listen with the warm and pretty “Bruno”, where her inviting pipes guide the soft, spirited climate, and “Few More Records” lands not far later with mild twang as soothing and melodic country rock enters the timeless atmosphere.
Near the middle, “Indiana”moves cautiously with Winwood’s pipes soaring high amid a poetic delivery, while “Nameless” recruits some pop ideas in the diverse landscape. “Smell Of Defeat”, one of the album’s best, then brings in piano as the flawless singing guides a folk influenced setting.
At the end, “One Step Behind” is a playful rural rocker that benefits greatly from Jon Radford’s drumming and electric guitar from Laur Joamets, and “You’ll Know Where To Find Me” exits the listen gentle and with much beauty as Winwood harmonizes alongside fluid acoustic guitar.
Lilly is the daughter of the legendary Steve Winwood, and she’s clearly hinting at a career as luminous as her father with excellent roosty, Americana and country songs like the ones populating the aptly titled Time Well Spent.
Travels well with: Charlotte Berg- It’s The Damsel Who Decides; Sarah Morris- All Mine