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A Cave, A Canoo is Shelley Short's third release on Hush records and, to my delight, arrived at my door yesterday morning. I’ve been listening through her two other Hush releases, Water for the Day and Captain Wildhorse , a good deal lately and find her soft, sparse songs the perfect accompaniment to autumn’s arrival. Short’s music is ostensibly folk and, like much of that genre, feels intimate and personal, engaging the listener in a private, quiet world. Short plays acoustic guitar and sings, in a lightly affected, sweet and youthful tone. [...]