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At once deeply spiritual and earthy with life, Corrine West’s sophomore album, Second Sight, sizzles with folk and bluegrass and simmers with Americana. West, who wrote all the tracks (co-writing “All Good Things” with Mary Shero and Kenny Davis), sings with a flat no-nonsense delivery straight from the gut, packed with enough rosin-coated twang to thwack you upside the head with a rolling pin.

The title track opens to the wicked-good banjo licks of Tony Furtado, with a rhythm to blister the paint off a country road and lyrics of loss and regret: “I was moving on four wheels / Quicksilver in the middle of the night / I was after a good thing / That I lost without a fight.”

Hell Yes follows with a beat like a bluegrass sock-hop and West calling out in a rebellious gospel wail, “Young fast and restless / Turnin’ on a dime / Couldn't stand where I was at / So I left it all behind.”  Those lyrics read like a slice of West’s childhood. Says her website bio, she dropped out of school at 15 to tour the country with nomad artists in a converted school bus. “I left home and school really young,” she says. “I was a wild energetic kid, and I had this incredible wanderlust from a very early age.”Second Sight moves from strength to strength in both lyrics and music. Hand Full of Gold is a softer ballad in deep violet, spiced with producer Mike Marshall’s rich mandolin, revealing a song of strength and hope: “When you hear the laughter / From a child you will know / The sky is full of diamonds  / And my heart full of gold “

Cabin Door invites us to, “While away the afternoon / Sittin’ barefoot in the rain / While the birds sing to the moon / And the river takes the shame,” punctuated softly by Jerry Douglas’ lilting Dobro. Roses to Rust dishes up a bluesy gospel lament, with Tony Furtado on slide guitar and John Burr on organ, as West croons, “While you put me on a shelf / Cryin’ to myself / What a dangerous, dangerous, dangerous game to play.”

This album is at once fun, heartfelt, moving and fresh. It just makes you want to get up, spin around, and either drench yourself in a summer shower or hightail it for nowhere. Good, good, good stuff.