Sue Jane Brewer was born in 1950 and grew up in Texas. She wrote songs in the quiet hours — closets to clear, letters to keep, a highway pointing south. She played them in rooms and on little stages. In 1983 she stood up with a guitar under a KORQ banner and sang. In 1992 she and Estell Brewer left Texas for Tennessee to pastor a church. She missed home. She wrote Fly South about two kinds of going back: Texas, and heaven, and the people waiting in both.

The years stacked up. People she loved went home to heaven ahead of her. A nephew named Clint gave her the idea for Shadow Dancing and did not live to hear it finished. She lost her husband Shawn Bryan in 1982 and carried him for a long time. Estell once told her he could not compete with a ghost. She wrote Nothing More to let the past rest and to tell the man in front of her she was staying. Years later she opened a box labeled in red — photos, letters, old cards — and found his handwriting. Here I Go Lovin Again.

She is 76. She still writes. What she cannot do anymore is what she used to do without thinking: sing the thing all the way through, and keep her hands on the guitar when they ache.

So the family helped. They took the songs as she wrote them — words, chords, the way she hears them — and recorded them so they would not stay in a drawer. Kishona is the name she has used for years when she plays games online. Kishona Jane is the name on the record. Not a replacement for Sue. A way for Sue’s songs to leave the house.

The first collection is an EP called Fly South. Six songs. Folk and country, a little blues when the lyric asks for it. Written by Sue Jane Brewer. Kishona Jane.

The guitar doesn’t keep up like it used to. The songs still got out.