Listening to the rustic, acoustic beauty of ‘Handsome Woman’ by Los Angeles singer-songwriter Lauren Scott-Phillips I am struck by the sheer stripped down beauty of it all. Lauren embodies the track with a seemingly natural ability to structure melodies that make you hear things that aren’t there. Yeah, really. I have listened to this song dozen’s of times and when the chorus sweeps in I hear added layers of orchestrations wrap around Lauren’s voice. Lauren’s down to earth elegant folk vocal aesthetic, like a cross generational amalgam of artists like Judy Collins and Gillian Welch, slips easily around you no matter what kind of music you are into.
