Caitlyn Smith has one of those voices so good that the listener’s reaction tends to be a stunned sort of laugh. On the two-piece of Spotify Singles released this week, Smith drives that reaction home, with emotive reaches and simmering lows. Accompanied only by an electric on “Before You Called Me Baby” and an acoustic for Aretha Franklin’s “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman,” the songs put Smith’s vocal at the shimmering forefront.
Smith recently released her EP Starfire, which featured the first of the two Spotify songs as well as her Garth Brooks cut “Tacoma” and the gut-wrenching “This Town Is Killing Me.”