Five years in the making, Clear Glass Jar speaks to an artist both rediscovering her roots and maturing into her voice.  What it shares with her earlier albums are sharp and literate songwriting, a melodic spirit and a dark sensibility.  Clear Glass Jar, though, goes deeper, exploring charged emotional scenes and musical settings which express the full range of her songwriting.  Whether it’s the sad tenderness of “Firefly” (‘You are a clear glass jar, a firefly inside/You might shine against the glass, but you will never fly’), the sexy intensity of “Magnetic” (which Judith wrote for a PBS Nova documentary about the magnetic field around Earth), the appeal for acceptance and reconciliation in “Meet Me There” (the bittersweet collision of divorce and a Rumi poem), or the world weariness of the final track, “Tired Of This Town”, Clear Glass Jar opens dark doors and walks unflinchingly through to the passionate and poignant rooms beyond.

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