The first of two releases to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth presents two of his major song collections, while bringing to light a substantial number of songs by the composer’s student Elizabeth Maconchy. Her works here are almost all unpublished and virtually unknown since their original first performances from manuscript, and span several decades of the composer’s career from the time of her studies with Vaughan Williams in the mid-1920s though to her committed espousal of the British modernist aesthetic by the 1960s and 70s.

The five new tracks are "Wrote the Book Around Here," "Tailgates of Heaven," "Bury Me Upside Down," "All Over the Map" and "Behind the Times." Gilbert co-wrote each of the new tracks, and he collaborated with a group of songwriters including Michael Ray, Randy Montana, Hunter Phelps and more.

On Circumstance, her second and latest album, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Alice Howe displays her vocal prowess and introspective writing in abundance, mining both her heart and her musical tastes for a deep, personal journey across an Americana soundscape dotted with blues, folk, country, soul and rock. Produced by her creative partner, iconic bassist Freebo (Bonnie Raitt) and recorded at legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Etta James and Wilson Pickett once shook the walls, the record channels their spirits with 11 stirring tracks that pull no punches diving into the vagaries of the heart and her own personal journey.