Jolie Holland

When Jolie Holland recorded the songs now found on her debut, Catalpa, she didn't
exactly set out to make an album. Thanks to an underground buzz, though, her crafty
basement tape/campfire recording is one happy accident of refreshingly underproduced,
heady Americana that was never intended to reach an audience wider than the back
porch. Taking cues from vocal jazz, backwoods blues and moaning Appalachia,... More >