Get Me There to Church by Michellar, the touching work of San Francisco-based songwriter Michelle Bond, is a country treasure, which envelops you with warmth and genuineness. Being a person who can always find comfort in music that touches the soul, this song is an easy drive through the small town, windows down, heart open. Collaborated with producer Tobias Wilson and featuring Harrison Black and Helen Walford on vocals, Michelle creates a song that is both intensely personal and yet one that many people can relate to as she draws on her own experience of love and commitment.
It is Harrison Black's soulful, serious vocals that hold down the song and they are the bearers of the burden of devotion, with a sincerity that is like a promise fulfilled. The harmonies of Helen Walford elevate the chorus with tender almost sacred sheen that makes you experience the feeling of two hearts coming together. The song, which is constructed around a soft acoustic strum, is welcoming and friendly, reminiscent of porch swings and golden-hour love. There is background clapping that incorporates a sense of community, such as friends encouraging a couple to the altar.
The instrumentation remains plain but lush, and the emotion is left to shine through.The uniqueness of this song is its sincerity. With a country legend Miranda Lambert as her inspiration, Michelle mixes her own experience into the story- a reflection on leaving life as a couple to life as a married couple. The lyrics, without being hyperbolic, express vulnerability and hope so that the desire to be in the church becomes a universal desire to have something stable.
The song was recorded in San Francisco, London, and Staffordshire, UK, and it has a feel of distance that is filled with love, which is a testimony of Michelle commitment to her work. Get Me There to Church is a love song to devotion, enclosed in the everlasting hug of country. It is that type of song which makes you freeze, smile and hope on the next step of love. It is a triumphant debut by Michellar, and it is evidence that the heart and soul of the story and the soulful music still can take your breath.
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