Rob’s Album Of The Week: Chrissy Stewart’s House Of Christina

For a handful of years now, Chrissy Stewart has been a creative pillar for Providence’s music scene. She got involved in the most practical of ways, just by going out to local shows and making friends with her kind and sensible demeanor. Then she started putting on low key acoustic house shows at The Grove in the city’s west end, networking herself into the fabric of the Columbus Theatre in the same neighborhood and eventually became Lucinda Williams’ production manager during a fun summer in 2017. Currently she’s involved with the music venue & hostel known as The Good Will Engine Company on 41 Central Street while running the advertising & event curating entity PVDLive. With a resume as stellar as hers, it’s only natural that Stewart began a music career of her own and her debut album, House Of Christina, that was self-released on July 22 is a fantastic beginning.

The album was recorded in a glass house on the island of Jamestown in southern Rhode Island with Princeton singer-songwriter Jonah Tolchin handling the production. There’s a stripped down folk sound that’s present, but there’s some jazz, blues and R&B elements as well. Tolchin, Providence musicians John Faraone, Ben Shaw and Brendan Moore, Boston bassist Matthew Murphy and Prague multi-instrumentalist Nic Coolidge also joined Stewart during the recording process. This melding…