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Listen to “Black Hand Blues” on MySpace.
Jolie Holland’s “Black Hand Blues” (from Catalpa) is the closest thing you can get to the sound of a classic era without trying to sound like you’re trying to recreate that classic sound. Just listen: it sounds classic. But it doesn’t sound contrived. It’s not copycatting anything. It is what it is, which is the spirit of the old blues songs reincarnated. Simple. Pure. Blues. Ah.
Listen to “Baltimore Blues No. 1″ on MySpace.
Deer Tick captures the romp of the beer brawls and the colorful shades of grey of Baltimore in “Baltimore Blues No. 1″ (from the album War Elephant). Why Baltimore? Because it’s beautiful. Every gutter, every beggar, every piece of litter on the dark, dank streets. You can taste it in this song.
Listen to “Eitheror” on MySpace.
The thing about listening to Lizz King is you often find yourself wondering where you are. In the beginning stages of “Eitheror” (from the album all songs go to heaven), you might think you were in a Victorian home listening to blues records waxed in the 1930s. Soon, you feel like you’re in a pickup twiddling on a banjo in West Virginia. By the end of the song, you feel like you might also be in a Björk video. And if you don’t like juxtaposition, don’t even start on her other songs. (But I do like juxtaposition, so I’m sold.)
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