Hutchinson"s new album "The Crossing" produced by Crit Harmon (Martin Sexton, Susan Werner) will establish her place at that refreshing intersection of genres. Think David Gray, Beth Orton, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin. The twenty-five year old possesses a poet"s sensibility and a voice that grabs you. There is nothing "folky" about this production but the acoustic guitar and lyrics remain at its center. (She played her grandmother"s 1957 Martin guitar in the studio.) The title track for the album is a song about a bridge in Hutchinson"s hometown that was mistakenly built higher than the surrounding road. Hutchinson says, "I was working on getting over some difficult things in my life during those months. There was this small sign "pavement ends" and then you"d hit the bridge and be airborne. The songs on this album grew out of this work of getting beyond."