A few new-to-me things this week:

Over The Rhine, Films For Radio- artfully-crafted, meticulously produced poppish tunes delivered grace in the form of a very big and lovely voice, whatever her name is. She could lose the emo eyeglasses, though............

Jolie Holland, Catalpa- This lass apparently was an early member of the Be Good Tanyas, leaving the group just as the 1st record was released. The first thing I thought when I spun this was, "When did they invent time-travelling to allow someone to jet back to 1830's Kentucky and capture this wonderful music?" This is lo-fi to the point of being no-fi, complete with coughs and a large dropped object being caught on tape. Not alt.anything, ROOTS music of the most elemental kind. A quiet voice wrapped around simple song structures with odd lyrics, backed sparingly by a guitar, maybe a mandolin, or harmonica, or fiddle, or saw. I like this record very much.

On vinyl, T Bone Burnett, S/T- never heard any of T Bone's own releases until this one- surprised that it was alt.countryish, but a very good record.

Lots more, but short on typing time.

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