
The Highline Ballroom presented an excellent night of music on Thursday. The headliner was Jolie Holland who plays blues-ish, country inspired rock songs. Tom Waits is a huge fan of her music which makes sense as they both have both a timelessness and an undefinability to their sound. Ms. Holland sings and plays guitar but also played synthesizer, violin and some sort of weird violin/fiddle-ish thing that looked kind of homemade. She has a new record out, " The Living and The Dead," which I've been listening to quite a bit. [...]