With her previous album, the elegant and breezy Safe to Run (2023), Esther Rose completed a string of four albums that explored affection, regret, and heartbreak with a tuneful retro-country that welcomed in fans of pure singer/songwriter fare. After recording that album, Rose considered quitting music, relocated from New Orleans to Santa Fe, quit drinking, and then started getting somewhere with therapy. (The working title for the follow-up was The Therapy LP.) When she decided she wanted to keep making music after all, she called on Ross Farbe, producer of her third and fourth albums, and headed to Nashville for live-to-tape sessions with a set of songs that were more open and confrontational in nature. In line with this new…