Amid the excitement and ambiguity of a new beginning, Paige Anderson of Two Runner poses poignant questions on Porchlight, her resolute and tender new album. With beautiful string arrangements, intimate confessions, and stirring anthems for the lost and the determined, here is an artist who has been on the road since early childhood — with a persistence and commitment to her craft that clearly do not go lacking. Porchlight offers warm, steady songs, relatable nostalgia, mixed with the pain of having to move on. The result perfectly captures the uncertainty of letting go and the simultaneous resolve of someone who has no other choice. A fate perhaps sealed from an early age, as Anderson began her touring career in a six-piece family bluegrass band at just nine years old. Today, nearly a decade after the start of her own musical career, she has seen stages set for Sierra Ferrell, Watchhouse and Molly Tuttle. Though change often comes in waves, it is surreal and unsettling to start over. Paige Anderson gives Two Runner a comfort and an escape for those who need to reset, with wise reassurance and kindness drawn from her own stories, as all great songwriters do. Porchlight may be summed up best by the chorus of the fifth track, “Mocking Crow”: “Wake up tomorrow, there’s no in-between — your heart knows what you need.” A reckoning, a brutal look in the mirror, hope, and moving forward against all odds.