The kind of song that stops you in your tracks, with Allie Jean’s “Across the Great Divide,” is the kind that makes you lean forward, as if the truth in her words would seem heavier if only you could hear it up close.
Production is tastefully restrained, an obvious effort to not overshadow but to allow Jean’s voice to communicate. Each note feels like another of her storytelling companions, workers in the service of intimacy, helping to make it so that the listener can breathe in all her moments. The end product is a song that’s intimate as much as it is universal, connecting the dots between Jean’s own meditation and the human experience at large.
At its heart, “Across the Great Divide” is about the ability of music to traverse the space between hearts, transforming private feeling into collective understanding. Jean embodies it, seducing us into embodying it right alongside her.
Allie Jean offers a song with “Across the Great Divide.” She delivers a reminder, when we feel oceans apart, music has the power to bring us home.
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