Everyone should own a CD that features the silver-toned vocals, dry wit and catchy melodies of Gretchen Phillips. Widely recognised for her work with Meatjoy, Two Nice Girls, Girls in the Nose and the Gretchen Phillips Experience, Phillips continues to captivate on Songs to Save Your Soul, a concept album tracing the path of loss leading to redemption. Phillips has never been one to confine herself to a particular style; Songs to Save Your Soul moves between meandering slide guitar country and Phillips' signature melodious, guitar driven constructions. Her wry interpretation of country classics like Conway Twitty's "Hello Darling" and Buck Owens' "Together Again" are filled with a piquant duality guaranteed to cause a stir. On "I Can Hear the Angels Singing," Phillips sings, "My flesh was meant to press the flesh / Of the one I love," with such veracious conviction that it'll shake a cynic out of complacency to the point of contemplating allowing love back through the triple-bolted door.

You'll probably burn in hell, after all...so why not enjoy a few of Phillips' ditties and at least let your soul hear what it sounds like to be saved.