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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
