She Went Upstairs is a collaborative album by Jo Serrapere and K.C. Groves, a duo whose recording engages with the folk, bluegrass, and old-time traditions from a contemporary perspective shaped by their combined backgrounds and sensibilities. The title — suggesting either a narrative piece or a figurative ascent that frames the album's thematic concerns — gives the recording an evocative character consistent with the folk tradition's long engagement with domestic space and personal history as metaphorical terrain. Independent duo recordings in the acoustic tradition carry a particular intimacy of scale, the close vocal and instrumental relationship between two performers creating a transparency of intention and a directness of communication that larger ensemble formats and more elaborate production values inevitably complicate.