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Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells
Welcome to another edition of Sound Bites, our economy-sized album reviews. This week, Nick Hutchinson weighs in on two recent national releases from Shemika Copeland and Seth Walker after the jump.
Adam PerryJolie Holland, with Matt Bauer
The Walnut Room
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Better Than: Walking from Market St. Station to Walnut & 31st in the cold
No one shines like Brooklyn-based indie-folk goddess Jolie Holland.
Just as Neil Young was the depth and edge of CSNY, Holland was the
stand-out talent in the Canadian, all-girl, alt-folk group the Be Good
Tanyas, and for the last half-decade has excelled on her own. Last fall,
Holland drew a large crowd to the Boulder Theater on th
