If you like feminine, folksy music in the
Joni Mitchell–Pat Humphries–Holly Near vein, you are in for a treat. But also heartbreak. Because Rachel Bissex, a singer I only learned of last summer, died last year at 48 from cancer. Her album, “In White Light,” is one that I think you’ll find yourself listening to over and over. The title song on the CD was apparently played at the end of her funeral, as friends and family put their arms around each other and just sobbed. It will, no doubt, move you too. You can listen to a long patch of it right on the album’s main page.

Sun goes down Moon comes up
Lighting the earth just enough
To see my face looking up
At her full size on the horizon

Almost immediately after Bissex’s death, her musical friends got together and produced a gorgeous album of her finest work–“Remembering Rachel”–and it is being considered for a Grammy, according to posts on her website. Both albums can be found and purchased through CDBaby.com, a distributor of alternative musicians.