Amelia and producer Marco Giovino ( Robert Plant, Norah Jones, Buddy Miller) selected a handful of players from Nashville's rich musician pool to accompany her in the studio including guitarists Doug Lancio ( John Hiatt, Patty Griffin) John Jackson ( Dylan, Lucinda WIlliams) and bassist Frank Swart ( Norah Jones, Patty Griffin.) The results range from terse-minor key album opener"Skeleton Key" to the lilting alt-country ode to lost love, "Lonely Sound." On "Saxophone Trains," a kind of hard times lullaby, White finds light amid the darkness to comfort her lover. She easily shifts gears for a gospel-tinged duet with A.J. Croce, ( including back ups from the famed McCrary Sisters) on "Mercy," and then re-imagines Bryan Ferry's "More Than This"as a dream like dirge that reflects the deepest corners of her own psyche. On the title track "Beautiful and Wild" White gracefully pays homage with a gentle send off to her friend, and famed songwriter, the late Duane Jarvis. White states, "The songs on Beautiful and