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Jolie Holland - Escondida |
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Written by Nicholas Jennings
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 On her website, Holland describes her music as “new old time: spooky American fairy tales,” placing her alongside nouveau traditionalists like Oh Susannah and the Be Good Tanyas, a group she co-founded. On her second CD, the Texan singer-songwriter, who counts Tom Waits and Nick Cave as fans, invokes spirits as diverse as Billie Holiday, Stephen Foster and the Carter Family on stirring songs like “Amen,” “Poor Girl” and the haunting Civil War ballad “Faded Coat of Blue” that linger like musical ghosts.
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