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Jolie Holland Conjures the Supernatural with 'The Living and the Dead'new
There's something slightly otherworldly about Jolie Holland. And it's not just the rhythmic swing and tonal lilt of her voice, and such lyrics as "Nobody likes a spook / Or so I've deduced / But I've loved some ghosts in my time."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
11-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jolie Holland Transitions from Musician to Iconnew
Holland's new album The Living And the Dead (her first to really utilize a producer) is so good that everything that came before it seems like a pleasurable blur, although all of her previous, more immediately folky work is deservedly acclaimed and worth checking out in earnest.
Boulder Weekly |
Arjuna Orland |
10-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Born to Bruisenew
Not every artist could so easily navigate the landscapes of hip-hop jams, country weepers and seafaring songs.
Houston Press |
Scott Faingold |
11-14-2006 |
Concerts
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Hauntingly Hotnew
Broken hearts, Southern ghosts and the voices inside her head can't derail scary-hot Texas torch singer Jolie Holland.
NOW Magazine |
Sarah Liss |
10-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
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Wry and Quixoticnew
Holland's light, spidery lilt only makes her fictional, early 20th-century American characters more corporeal.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Wanderin' Heartnew
Jolie Holland's old-timey creations run the gamut from aching jazz to stark, Southern Gothic ballads.
Seven Days |
Casey Rea |
07-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Stuff That Dreams are Made Ofnew
Jolie Holland's out with her third and best album.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Stunning and Spellbindingnew
The dozen songs of Springtime span anguish and transcendentally drunken sex as easily as the everyday epiphanies of bus rides and back-road drives.
Train Hoppingnew
The whiskey-tinged soul pipes of Jolie Holland pour out a sultry sound.
L.A. Alternative |
Lucy Bernard |
04-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Blackbird Fly: Americana the Way It Ought to Benew
The Houston native's music manages to sound both Depression-era vintage and strikingly contemporary, while her songs are full of pleas for good old-fashioned morphine and desperate failed romances, not to mention the talking starfish and singing mermaids that gambol and frolic on the beaches of her adopted San Francisco home.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Americana Beautynew
On this album, Jolie Holland doesn't just doll up hissy old 78s for the digital age; she taps into their timeless passions and creates something fresh and arresting, something that's hard and pure and anything but quaint. Also reviewed is Nina Nastasia's Dogs.
Illinois Times |
René Spencer Saller |
08-12-2004 |
Reviews
