Blog: L.A. RECORD

darren ragle (From Yes I Will, Mr. Man available now on White Noise) Amanda Jo Williams’ Georgia drawl stands out among the other singers in Echo Park and Silver Lake. I always felt her music was more in line with L.A.’s freak folk scene, but her newly reissued 2006 album doesn’t catalog comfortably alongside other freak folk releases. It’s really more freak punkabilly, a hybrid of swampland country and stripped-down punk rock—like Stan Ridgway combined with the Geraldine Fibbers. I’ve only seen her leading two-pieces and trios, so I was caught off guard [...]

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