From the album's very opening-- with its unexpected and wholly sweet, McGuinn-ish twelve string guitar lines kicking in 20 seconds into the thing-- Jo...
JON YOUNG - 12/11/2008
Because Jolie Holland seems to drift in a heavy narcotic haze, it's tempting to underestimate the Texas-bred singer-songwriter's skills. But however m...
NICOLE FREHSEE - 15/10/2008
Yes, Jolie Holland knows Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues. Over the mariachi horns of "Mexico City," the Texas singer introduces Jack, who drinks too ...
Laura Witkowski - 14/10/2008
Hooray for the rise of successful ladies in the music world. Boo for our inability to discuss one of them without bringing up at least two or more oth...
Michael Metivier - 10/10/2008
There is nothing on Jolie Holland’s latest that matches the seductive, demurely jazz-tinged “Mehitabel’s Blues” or “Stubborn Beast” from 2006’s Spring...
Karen Schoemer - 07/10/2008
Jolie Holland should be redundant: Her fetish for country?s cobwebby corners postdates Neko Case, her mangled vowels and husky torment recall Cat Powe...