Hillary Capps - Waxing Moon (2020)

The title track from Capps’ forthcoming album, “The Way Back Home” is a masterpiece of understatement. Hillary Capps is a songwriter of note and “The Way Back Home” is a track that deserves to be heard by all.

This song is a message of love designed for one person only. Over the top of a simple, strummed guitar, Capps sings to an unknown lover – “light my way back home so I can love you know now, every bit as much as I did then”. The lyrics impart a yearning for a relationship as it used to be “way back when” and looks forward to a rapprochement that might never come – “Hold me, keep me, don’t leave me when I’m gone”. The intimacy of the lyrics is perfectly reflected in the haunting vocals and understated production – only the cello interlude serves to embellish the (superb) acoustic minimalism of the production.