Singer-songwriter Michelle Billingsley is no stranger to flaws, nor does she attempt to hide them. She even went as far as to list them off in one of her songs. Songs that she explains are often a lot of work, leading her to twilight morning writing sessions, when she winds up erasing more than writing. Some of those sessions lead to the completion of her latest song, “Portia”.
The charming alt-country song comes from Billingsley’s upcoming album Not the Marrying Kind due for release by early summer on Western Myth Records. The song produced by Matt Brown, is a candid tune about knowing who you are and the ability to reveal the most brutal parts of yourself and is depicted by deconstructed arrangements and a repeated vocal octave jump, that quickly becomes the song’s motif. READ MORE…