She premiered The Long Pond Studio Sessions over a Thanksgiving weekend when most American families (like mine) were separated by the pandemic. It was also exactly ten years after the cozy flannel Thanksgiving that gave us “All Too Well,” and for any viewers who might not pick up on that detail, she spends much of the sessions wearing plaid shirts, while she and her two guitar boys get lost upstate, surrounded by the autumn leaves. She soaks up the rural ambience, talking on the porch or in the yard beside the barn.
