Cassidy Dickens heads home to craft her beautiful new album, All I’m Missing.

By Graeme Smith

Cassidy Dickens is a Nashville, USA-based singer songwriter who first featured on this blog in 2023 thanks to her ode to young love in the Bible Belt, Church Basement. Now she’s back on our pages with her new album, All I’m Missing. About the urge to return home to her Southern West Virginia roots, All I’m Missing is a celebration of the place, written in her grandparents’ former property.

As I found with Church Basement, it’s the folksy storytelling that makes All I’m Missing stand out from the crowd. Cassidy tells vivid, personal tales with her lyrics, and delivers them compellingly with her soft and emotional vocal. Guitar and fiddle from Jason Roller complete the sound.

The album’s title track opens things memorably before the aforementioned Church Basement provides an early highlight with its tale of young love awakening. Clear Creek is a lively number that’s full of nostalgia and a certain darkness while Better Late Than Never delicately exposes the realities of a relationship. Close To My Chest rounds off the album’s first half with a bright and confessional moment.

As the album moves into its second half we get the intimate duo of Deep End and Tender, the dynamic Highway 33, and the heart-breaking The Light. Timelines then closes the collection in reflective style with a gentle instrumental and lingering emotion.

Cassidy Dickens is one of those artists who is quietly honing her craft and she’s created something beautiful with her new album. Its autobiographical detail is captivating, as is its relatable emotion. If you’re a fan of modern folk then you’re going to love this record.

All I’m Missing was produced and mixed from Sean Giovanni. It’s out now on World Peach Records, available to buy on CD via Cassidy’s website. You can give it a listen below.