Album Review: Joy Guidry - Amen (2024)

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Glorious odes to ancestral gratitude. Joy Guidry pours her reverence to the great Divine, weaving primordial strands of Texas, Louisiana, and Creole roots into a great record.

The journey through the record is embedded with celestial spirit. Some tracks are instrumental, somber, devout, many with a specter of the bluesy angst of a life lived. Bassoon solos are incredibly haunting, filtered through restraint.

Much to savor on this record. Amen to that.

Prestige tracks: Psalm 138:7, Its Okay To Let Me Go, Members Don't Get Weary, Day by Day, Angels, I Will Always Miss You, Revelations 7:16-17