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Jolie Holland with Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside

Texas-born Jolie Holland fuses folk, traditional country and blues into songs that are, as the old book says, 'as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves'. Loosely inspired by Neil Young's Zuma, Holland's fourth album, Pint of Blood, is out on ANTI- records on June 28th. Embracing the live-studio rock approach of the 60's and 70's, Holland nods to The Velvet Underground, the Stones, and Bowie. The New York Times has called Holland "the folk singer who's from everywhere and nowhere", but her latest work is a matured distance from her days in The Be Good Tanyas, firmly settled in a grounded personal sound of artistic exploration. Sallie Ford pulled up her Carolina roots and moved across the country to Portland, Oregon, where she met her band, the Sound Outside. Channeling the vocal stylings of Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Etta James, the group is doing for roots music what Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings have done for the contemporary soul music revival.