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Vulnerability underscored by grit. Strength sealed by fire. Mood driven by melody. Reconciliation that turns to inspiration. This is the territory of Sophie B. Hawkins' remarkable sixth album, which is at once the most directly personal, musically transporting and defiantly raw work yet from the Grammy nominated
singer/songwriter.

Since her instantaneous 1992 breakthrough with the indelible hit single "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" and her acclaimed debut album Tongues and Tails, Hawkins has proved an enduring artist with a fierce commitment to constantly evolving, while remaining steadfastly true to her own authentic history and experience. This comes to the fore as she breaks open her heart without reservation on The Crossing, her longawaited first album of new songs in several years. It is a searing, lush and startlingly naked chronicle of the most intense period of Hawkins' life, in which she has come to terms with her father's death, openly surrendered to the haunting specter of her past, discovered the exhilaration of motherhood and arrived at a profound reckoning of acceptance. All of this emerges in songwriting and vocals that mix the brashly playful and the unabashedly poignant in fresh ways for Hawkins.

"I was really reaching for somewhere new as I wrote these songs," she explains. "It all started with getting a letter from my sister that my father was dying -- and, in a way, that opened up not only struggle and emotion but all these opportunities for healing. I had to acknowledge that I'd never be able to heal the abyss created by my parents' alcoholism. I had to say this is how it was, this is how it is with me now and surrender to the grace of that. These feelings have always been there in my writing but it's like I always kind of danced around them in my songs and now I was ready to go head-on into them. The songs began to express a kind of eternal dream I've had, that I think we all have, for a moment of peace and clarity, for the ability to get beyond our personal struggles and move out into the larger world -- knowing exactly where you stand in it."

The eleven songs on her upcoming album, The Crossing spilled out of Sophie B. Hawkins in a way she had never experienced before in a lifetime of diverse and critically admired songwriting -- yet were so closely entwined with her very being, she confesses they felt at first like secrets that needed to be kept. "I didn't play these songs to anybody, not a soul, for a long time," she acknowledges. "But as I wrote, I developed deeper and deeper roots of strength. I felt it was time to do something that might scare me. And what I love about these songs is that they are very, very emotional but they aren't filled with baggage. There's something very unconscious about them, a letting go, and they seem to bring people a lot of joy."

"I was really reaching for somewhere new as I wrote these songs," she explains. "It all started with getting a letter from my sister that my father was dying -- and, in a way, that opened up not only struggle and emotion but all these opportunities for healing. I had to acknowledge that I'd never be able to heal the abyss created by my parents' alcoholism. I had to say this is how it was, this is how it is with me now and surrender to the grace of that. These feelings have always been there in my writing but it's like I always kind of danced around them in my songs and now I was ready to go head-on into them. The songs began to express a kind of eternal dream I've had, that I think we all have, for a moment of peace and clarity, for the ability to get beyond our personal struggles and move out into the larger world -- knowing exactly where you stand in it."

Hoping to sustain the stripped-bare honesty of how the songs were written, Hawkins created the album in a sonically hand-made way -- recording entirely in her home studio and keeping the sparse, spontaneous immediacy of a demo-like sound. She engineered the album herself. "The album is entirely me with just drums, bass, guitar and flugel. I didn't hire a band -- I just would meet one musician at a time and have them come to the house to record and it was a very spacious and organic process. I became an engineer really by instinct. I kept things very simple and told the musicians to just have fun. It felt like it unfolded all on its own -- I really wanted to retain the feel of these songs that were written completely in the moment and I think we did. I felt lucky just to be there watching this be created."

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