These Are The Days [CD], Michaela Anne, CD

Woven throughout These Are The Days, the sixth full-length album from Nashville's Michaela Anne, is a tenderness. With life comes change, and love must deepen to hold it all together. While Michaela Anne's past work searched for satisfaction in the external world, These Are The Days brings the gaze mindfully inward toward a re-grounding of values. Following two years of major life transitions in which she became a mother at the same time that her own mother suffered a stroke, Michaela Anne used songwriting to shape her understanding of a commonplace life. "The humdrum is holy," she sings on the title track, reminding us that the small moments are what make a life. There's no escapism here, no gloss. These Are The Days reinforces how gratitude and unconditional love are essential to surviving the ordinary. In challenging chapters, the mundane becomes expansive; simplicity, sacred. Michaela Anne recorded the album at her home studio-a backyard sanctuary hand-built by her husband, producer Aaron Shafer-Haiss, and his father, and it marks the debut release on her own label, Georgia June Records. These Are The Days reconnects with her rock roots, moving away from classic country toward something raw and resonant. Textured, vibrant, and deeply human, it's ultimately a coming-of-age statement written with the wisdom of a woman in her 30s: a recognition that there is no love without grief, and that growing up means holding both.