Blog: the velvet rut

I first came to know of Texas-born singer-songwriter Jolie Holland during her brief stint as a member of Be Good Tanyas around the time the all-girl group put forth their debut Blue Horse in 2000. From there my proper full introduction to her music came via her solo debut album Catalpa in 2003 but it was the arrival of Holland's second album, Escondida in 2004, that just completely blew my mind (and continues to do so to this day). There's a sultry, agelessness in Holland's [...]