Lifted Off the Ground may be Chely Wright's seventh album, but on a number of levels it feels and sounds like her first, revealing
an artist who has undergone a dramatic artistic transformation, emerging as a singer/songwriter of the first order.
But the new
album would never have come to be were it not for an equally dramatic personal transformation, which she has candidly and
painstakingly documented.
Lifted Off the Ground was released on the same day Random House
published Wright's autobiography, Like Me.
Produced by Rodney Crowell, Lifted Off The Ground includes eleven songs all written
by Wright except for one song which she co-wrote with Crowell. From the Label
