Wednesday, November 19, 2003

AND NOW THE ANTI-PARIS: To balance out the bad-love: Jolie Holland looks like an eco-terrorist, has an accent so inscrutable that she might as well be singing Edith Piaf, plays a guitar that sounds as if its strings have not been changed for six months, and apparently moved to Canada to jump start her singing career. Feel free to scratch your head over that last one.

Unlike Paris Hilton, however, she has mad bluegrass skills. She sings with a piercingly church-bell-clear voice (not so the accent, as I said) and moves sideways into notes that she holds only restlessly, very much like a (hill-)Billie Holliday. If you’re looking for some lo-fi Americana, try Holland’s Catalpa.

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