Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Jaimee Harris’ ‘Boomerang Town’ Finds the Dark and Light in Emotional Journey

What a revelation this second album from Texas-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jaimee Harris is! It’s country-leaning folk Americana, every song propelled by acoustic guitar and other, mostly spare instrumentation, with Harris’ remarkable voice leading us through ten original songs (four of them co-writes) that pack a tremendous emotional punch. Whether they’re describing personal memories or painting portraits of friends and lovers or conjuring myriad emotional states—wistful, sad, confused, contented, uncertain, hopeful—these songs all have the deep ring of truth that springs from Harris’ own life experiences growing up in a small, Waco-area town she was desperate to escape: “a ‘boomerang town,’” she once explained, “because it feels like a lot of folks that try to leave end up back there.”