Laurelyn Dossett

I'm proud to bring her to your attention.

North Carolina's Laurelyn Dossett got into music later in life and launched a successful regional folk duo, but found her niche writing for innovative stage plays presented out of her base in Greensboro, as well as landing songs in TV and film.

From those offbeat platforms, she's heard her songs recorded by Levon Helm and the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Only now, in her 60s, has she released an album under her own name, and it's a beauty.

and the mockingbird can't sing like the crying of a dove and I can't tell my daughters all the things that I'm scared of but I am of that bright glory up above Dying's just another way to meet the ones you love

I really struggled with which version of Leaving Eden to play here.

Laurelyn Dossett first recorded it as Polecat Creek in 2005, and it's lovely, but I settled on the Carolina Chocolate Drops version sung by Rhiannon Giddens with cello by Layla McCalla.

It raised Laurelyn's profile and is one of her signatures now.