Jolie Holland is a Texas-born singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional country, jazz, and blues. She is one of the founding members of The Be Good Tanyas. Labelmates Tom Waits and Sage Francis are both outspoken fans of Holland's. Tom Waits nominated her for the Shortlist music prize.[1] Sage Francis has said that Holland's album Escondida was his most listened to album of 2005.[2] Holland also collaborated with him on two tracks on his album Human the Death Dance.
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Yes, Jolie Holland knows Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues. Over the mariachi horns of "Mexico City," the Texas singer introduces Jack, who drinks too much because "there was nowhere else to go." That apocalyptic feeling pervades this sepia-toned album, boosted by M. Ward's scraggly hooks. Holland has a soft spot for sad sacks — the "ghost-faced junkie" of "Corrido por Buddy," the lover who made her "little heart a graveyard" on "Palmyra" — but her honeyed harmonies keep the mood from getting too gloomy. And when she busts out a fiddle on "Sweet Loving Man," a Fifties-style country tune about a velvet-tongued drifter, you can picture Kerouac nodding in approval.
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Yes, Jolie Holland knows Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues. Over the mariachi horns of "Mexico City," the Texas singer introduces Jack, who drinks too much because "there was nowhere else to go." That apocalyptic feeling pervades this sepia-toned album, boosted by M. Ward's scraggly hooks. Holland has a soft spot for sad sacks — the "ghost-faced junkie" of "Corrido por Buddy," the lover who made her "little heart a graveyard" on "Palmyra" — but her honeyed harmonies keep the mood from getting too gloomy. And when she busts out a fiddle on "Sweet Loving Man," a Fifties-style country tune about a velvet-tongued drifter, you can picture Kerouac nodding in approval.
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"Mad Tom of Bedlam" / 2006