After recording three albums while fronting country hit-makers Trick Pony, charting eight singles and branching out for her first solo project with the platinum-certified smash “Johnny & June,” Newfield knows her way around a studio, and this album proves that. With collaborators like Randy Houser, Jim Lauderdale, Delbert McClinton, Mickey Raphael and Kenny Vaughan on her new solo album The Barfly Sessions Vol. 1, she’s finally captured her full range. “No one was telling me what to do,” Newfield says. “No one put me in a box. Anyone asking me, what is the new music like? Ummmmm, it’s like me!” Credited with writing on 12 of the collection’s 14 songs, she brings her musical stamp to all of them.