Charlene Lockwood's music summons simple but arresting images — perhaps an Italian garden in winter, a dancing gypsy, or morning sun on a red barn — images that won't soon let go.
 Her ambitious debut album, Flickering Images, is made up of 14 original compositions, featuring her distinctive piano playing on nine tracks (seven of them solo performances), plus two string pieces, two pop songs (one sung by Charlene herself, one sung by Steve Sweeney of the band Jack's Mission), and a new Christmas song, "The Shepherd's Carol" (sung by Kip Ledger). The album features songs derived from some of Charlene's favorite literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, The Wizard of Loneliness by John Nichols, Handling Sin by Michael Malone, Henry James' Portrait of a Lady, and John Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci."
Charlene's Music Now Available Through Digital Download Charlene's music is finally available through digital download. Legal digital download sites (as opposed to the illegal ones which allowed unlicensed downloads and gave the artists nothing) are popping up all over. Perhaps someone you know (or you yourself) is curious about Charlene's music, but isn't ready to spend $15 to purchase a copy of her record. These sites allow you to download single tracks from the CD album usually for about a dollar. Downloading the full CD typically costs about $10, 33% off the cover rate. If you are unfamiliar with digital downloads, any of these services will ask you to download free software to your desktop to facilitate music downloads. Check out different ones. There are slight discrepancies in the services. Some allow different numbers of copies to be made of your downloaded file, some charge a little more or a little less, some are particularly Windows-friendly or Mac-friendly, some have access to different artists' catalogs (though all are rapidly growing). Charlene's music can be downloaded through the following online services. Choose the one that's best for you and let us know if you recommend one more highly than another.
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