Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, released her debut record, “To Whom It May Concern,” in 2003. She has a new album, “Storm & Grace.”

AKRON, Ohio — She was born rock ‘n’ roll royalty with all the good (money, instant fame) and bad (your entire life is under constant scrutiny, obsessive fans asking whether you can sing like your daddy).

But though she’s been famous since birth, Lisa Marie Presley is only now coming into her own as an artist at age 44 after surprising many people by starting her music career in her mid-30s with her slick debut album, “To Whom It May Concern.”

The album, produced by pop/rock hitmaker Glen Ballard (Alanis Morrisette, Sheryl Crow) contained salty language and an underlying surliness as Presley, who co-wrote every song, seemed to be flipping a metaphorical bird at anyone questioning her motives or talent.

“To Whom It May Concern” peaked in 2003 at No. 5 on the Billboard charts and sold gold. She followed it two years later with “Now What,” toured some and then seemingly disappeared from the music scene for the rest of the decade.

Now Presley has returned to recording with her new album, the Americana-tinged “Storm & Grace” released in May, and is hitting the road. But the singer/songwriter/mother of four didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to make music again. The album follows an intense time in her life.

“It was more of an awakening period and deconstruction of a lot of stuff going on around me that I needed to get rid of,” she said from the home outside of London she shares with her husband, guitarist and musical director Michael Lockwood, and their 4-year-old twin daughters, Harper Vivienne Ann and Finley Aaron Love.

“I just really wanted a completely different setting and life and to see if I could be inspired again.”

Part of that big life change was a trip to London, where Presley hooked up with English songwriters including Richard Hawley, singer/songwriter Ed Harcourt, songwriter Sacha Skarbek and Fran Healy. What was supposed to be a short trip across the pond to write and get away from the people and problems she was jettisoning turned into a full move to a home in suburban London.

“In the past when everyone was going to Nashville and writing this and that, I could never do something contrived like that or preconceived,” she said.

However, Presley found that working outside her comfort zone with the “very, very, very English” songwriters worked.

“Richard Hawley is kind of a little bit the Johnny Cash/Leonard Cohen of England and Ed Harcourt is kind of like the Jeff Buckley/Tom Waits kind of guy. So they were all kind of oddly alternative,” she said.

While she was writing and recording demos, Presley’s new music was given to Oscar- and Grammy-winning producer T-Bone Burnett, who was impressed enough to helm the production, bringing with him his stable of talented musicians to give the album an authentic singer/songwriter vibe and a rootsy, mostly acoustic sound.

The result is “Storm & Grace,” what she calls the truest representation of her as a singer/songwriter.

“People think it’s easier for me, but to get critical acclaim and great reviews, that’s what I need. It lets me know that it’s going beyond (being Elvis Presley’s daughter),”she said.

“The recognition as a singer/ songwriter for me is the most important thing. I know there’s a lot of other stuff attached to my life but for me I’m working and I’m doing something ... and (that) means everything to me.”