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Charlotte Cornfield & Al Menne
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It’s been less than two years since Highs in the Minuses became Charlotte Cornfield’s break-out — a magnetic mission statement for the Toronto songwriter described by Rolling Stone as “Canada’s best-kept secret.” Cornfield emerged from pandemic seclusion with new fans, raised expectations, and her first major US tour. She could have kept touring forever. She could have done anything. What she did was jump into an old Subaru driving seven hours south to the Hudson Valley. The car didn’t have any A/C; she had only recently earned her license, and she had never met the producer she was driving down to meet. But when Cornfield arrived in Hurley, NY, at the red-steepled church now Dreamland Recording Studios, she was ready for whatever came next. “There was this letting go of some of the strong-headedness that I think I used to have,” she says, “and an embracing of the open-mindedness of life.”
Cornfield had come to Hurley to work with producer Josh Kaufman, thrilled by his sublime recordings with Cassandra Jenkins, Anais Mitchell and his band, Bonny Light Horseman. The album they’d now make together Could Have Done Anything, is a testament to Cornfield’s life and all its possibilities, an acknowledgment that the best musicians can turn fleeting moments into timeless songs. Over nine magnetic tracks, the singer-songwriter begins yet another chapter: gazing in the rear-view to understand where she’s been, squinting through the sunset to see what’s ahead.