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Real music emanates from the guts and the heart, it’s infused with soul and passion. Sometimes it’s tender, sometimes it’s raw but most importantly it makes a connection that runs from the author’s pen and guitar strings, down wires and cables and through the ether to the listeners’ ears. Thoughts and ideas, wild and considered, transported via melodies and rhythms from heart to heart. Kristen Lee Morris has built a career on writing, singing and playing guitar in just this fashion. It’s blues music at its core but with a freedom and range that also draws on country and folk styles. Whether it’s a lonesome harmonica drawing a line back to Neil Young, loose-limbed boogie guitar steeped in both the sound of the blues masters and more recent exponents such as Chris Whitley, or the heartfelt poetry from documentarians of heartache such as Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle – you can hear it all in Morris’ special blend. “I grew up with guitars around me my whole life. I was raised on