Margaret Glaspy is one of those singer-songwriters who often benefits from stripping her work down to the bare essentials. Although I first came to appreciate Glaspy through the plenty-produced album Emotions and Math, in the intervening years I’ve gravitated more to her leaner work. That preference extended to any Unplugged-style takes of various songs. With that in mind, do know that I am the easiest of marks for “Michigan,” Glaspy’s new single.

“Michigan” finds Glaspy in a contemplative mode, plucking at an acoustic guitar and singing through her feelings. It’s reminiscent of vintage Bob Dylan but spruced up with the modern elegance of Laura Marling. I also can’t help but think of Michelle Shocked’s breakthrough single, “Anchorage,” undoubtedly because of the song’s citation of a specific place as a new home base and general structure of lyrics as correspondence that offers an update (“Yes I’m in Michigan and my tail spin has straightened out/ And the color in my cheeks is coming back to me after a long hard drought”). Glaspy’s latest is satisfying as can be.

I Am Both, the new album from Margaret Glaspy, is scheduled for release in August.