Portland, Oregon-based Paula Sinclair"s latest CD Steady Girl is her strongest album to date, raw emotion spilling from each of the 11 tracks with muscular power and tender grace, supported by the instrumental backing of Tony Furtado and Tim Ellis, among others. According to Sinclair, "This is the record I"ve been waiting so long to create. It includes my best songs - and a Steve Earle classic, to boot!" Sinclair rivets audiences with confident, fluid guitar-playing and vocals as brassy, sweet, and earthy as the soil on the Lexington, Kentucky farm where she grew up. Compared to Chrissie Hynde, Lucinda Williams, and Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Sinclair is a sultry crooner with a country soul and a rock-and-roll heart.