The third album from Omaha, NE-based songwriter, Anna McClellan entitled I saw first light obliquely relates a tumultuous year in the life of it’s composer. Moving, geographically, from the heart of New York City to a bucolic retreat upstate, and finally back to her midwestern hometown of Omaha, NE, Anna also traversed emotional states – from the restless frenzy of urban life, to the enforced, depressive rumination of the country. Her vision – one artist’s reckoning with her forebears and coevals, along with her ongoing obligation to use art as a tool for connection and understanding – coalesced, upon her return to Nebraska, with the help of local friends, into the album.