Singer-songwriter Ella Williams’ sixth full-length paints vivid miniportraits of everyday people in quiet moments, her honeyed alto giving grace and gravitas to their lives. The ghostly “Highway Woman” chronicles a restless woman whose desire to see the world dovetails with her death-defying nerve; “Surfing Usa” is a folk-pop requiem for a broken heart, its narrator dreaming of someday surfing the Great Lakes. Williams has been making music as Squirrel Flower for more than a decade, and with each release, she’s refined her concept of American folk music; Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, named after the devotional refrains of the album’s world-weary opening and closing tracks, captures how her talents have reached a new peak.