Blog: Direct Current

Anais Mitchell - Any doubts that the creative smarts behind 2010's impressive folk "opera" Hadestown -- a mix of Greek mythology and dust-bowl Americana -- might have peaked are easily dispelled with this intelligent, thoughtfully personal new work of storytelling inspired, she says, "by American manhood, British ballads and my father"...producer/musician Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird) is once again at the studio helm // Release : Young Man In America (February 28) // Sounds like : Mitchell's distinctive, girlish voice serves as a counterpoint for her [...]

• Anais Mitchell - Shepherd
• Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America Sampler