No Rules says it all.
As the title of Rebecca Lynn Howard’s debut album handpicked to launch the new Saguaro Road Records label, these two words sum up this songwriter’s approach to music in general but most specifically on this extraordinary release … extraordinary but not surprising, for fans have come to expect the unexpected from the young woman who has accomplished so much so soon.

Established in Nashville as a writer whose catalog has been mined by Reba McEntire, Patty Loveless, John Michael Montgomery, Trisha Yearwood and other headliners, and in demand as a guest vocalist on sessions with the likes of Vince Gill and Dolly Parton, Howard has above all been celebrated as an artist in her own right since hitting the country music Top 5 with her album Forgive in 2002.

From the start, Howard has taken inspiration from throughout the broad vista of American music. True, she was raised in Appalachia, but there was more music around her in eastern Kentucky than the bluegrass and country with which she has been associated. Gospel flowed through that world as well, in more than one stream. And Howard drew nourishment from it all.

“My family’s sister church was an all-black, full-gospel church,” she remembers. “So I grew up singing that kind of music too. But even though I was bursting at the seams, wanting to bring out this soulful aspect of what I do, I never really touched on it in my albums – until now.”

Work on the project began several years ago, when Howard began feeling the urge to explore. From its earliest moments, the album embraced the idea of letting the music set its own direction, without category or preconception – with no rules. And the more freedom she allowed herself in her writing, the more this side of her creativity began to emerge.

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