Carolyn Mark - Terrible Hostess

A dairy farmer’s daughter from Sicamous, B.C., Mark sure knows how to milk her influences, belting out rockabilly like a reborn Wanda Jackson or crooning country ballads like the second coming of Patsy Cline. On her second solo album, Mark, who also records with the fabulous Neko Case as the Corn Sisters, pulls out all the stops, singing with equal parts melancholy and mischief on songs about heartache, getting drunk and getting laid. If only country radio sounded as feisty as this.