This is the ninth album of the veteran singer-songwriter. Recorded in Nashville, Catie uses her vocals and acustic guitar to give her songs an "open and confident" feel, and with Bonnie Raitt as a collaborator there is no doubt they will be that and more.

Sweet Life abounds with positive energy- from the warm and winsome coming-of-age allegory "Are You Ready to Fly?" to the languid, sepia-toned "What You Can't Believe," on which she disperses the doubts that gather, as the lyric puts it, "under darkening clouds." That song, like many of the disc's dozen offerings, reaches out to listeners with a welcoming blend of burnished keyboards and slide guitar - a departure from Curtis's most recent recordings, which were more spare.

Track Listing:
1. Sweet Life
2. Are You Ready To Fly?
3. Everything Waiting To Grow
4. For Now
5. Happy
6. What You Can't Believe
7. Lovely
8. Sing
9. Soul Meets Body
10. Fools
11. The Princess and the Mermaid
12. Over