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.

Flickering Images, is made up of 14 original compositions, featuring distinctive piano 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."