The new album from Kashena Sampson “Ghost Of Me” sees the powerhouse country singer taking a new direction, moving into something of a Fleetwood Mac territory. It’s something that Sampson wanted to do – as she explains when talking of the album: “This is an album about ignoring the bullshit and doing what’s authentic to me. Forget the rat race. Forget the bad relationships. Forget trying to please everybody. I’m tired of doing that. I wanted to do something for myself, and that’s what “Ghost Of Me” became – it’s an album for me.”
And the lead single ‘Rearview Mirror‘ is similarly forthright, it’s a co-write with Caroline Spence and came out of a preiod of introspection and self-assessment: “Shadow work has become one of the most sacred parts of my spiritual path, sitting with the parts of myself I once tried to bury, and learning to listen when my intuition whispers…or screams. ‘Rearview Mirror’ was born out of one of those shadowy moments. I was in a co-writing session that left me feeling small and scattered, but I couldn’t fully understand why until later that night. That’s often how my intuition speaks, subtle in the moment, clear only in hindsight. As I sat with the discomfort, the first line came through: ‘I only see it in the rearview mirror.’ The whole experience reminded me of the Death card in Tarot. Not an ending, but a transformation. A spiritual shake-up designed to clear the path for truth. The next day, I brought that line to Caroline. We wrote the song in about an hour. It just flowed.“
We note that the Soundcloud is labelled as Explicit – so just a warning, if you find the word “shit” particularly offensive, then you should probably not listen (or, for that matter, read this sentence).
