A year after her , Ilse DeLange returns to her old love: American roots music. And how! Gravel & Dust exudes pure simplicity, intimacy and authenticity. DeLange managed to get as producer, a multiple Grammy award winner of the soundtrack and , an album with and . Burnett brings all music back to the essence, the core of the song: the less, the better. The album draws the listener into a
… timeless 'laidback' atmosphere of languid, southern America. DeLange wrote the mostly quiet acoustic songs together with her, among others colleagues Matthew Crosby and Jake Etheridge. DeLanges' understated vocals, an acoustic guitar and the signature pedal steel guitar and bluegrass banjo are all we need in this beautiful country, bluegrass and folk music. (SvdP)more
