Ghost of Browder Holler

iTunes Review Ray Wylie Hubbard was a fan of Chelle Rose's obscure 2000 debut album, Nanahally River, and on a Nashville radio broadcast he expressed interest in producing a record by the much-overlooked singer/songwriter. Rose heard that broadcast, called in, and hired Hubbard to produce her long-awaited second album, Ghost of Browder Holler. The result features the kind of tough, Appalachian, hard country tunes you'd expect from such a collaboration. "Browder Holler Boy" tells the story of Rose's first love, who died young. Julie Miller's "I Need You" is given a loud and affirmative rendition. Ian McLagan of The Faces adds keyboards to "Rufus Morgan" and the affecting ballad "If I Could." "Alimony" fires up the electric guitars for a real-life tale of what a music career can do to a marriage. "Rattlesnake in the Road" shuffles with a rockabilly groove. "Wild Violets Pretty," with Rose's friend Elizabeth Cook on harmony, throws together a ukulele-inspired closer. .