Jolie Holland - Catalpa
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Artist: Jolie HollandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-11-11
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Alley Flowers
- All the Morning Birds
- Roll my Blues
- Black Hand Blues
- December, 1999
- I Wanna Die
- Demon Lover Improv
- Catalpa Waltz
- The Littlest Birds
- Wandering Angus
- Periphery Waltz
- Ghost Waltz
Music reviews of Catalpa
Music Review: Lovely, to say the least.
Rating: 5 Stars
I heard "All The Morning Birds" one lonely evening in June 2003 on listener supported/free form radio WFMU and immediately felt an overwhelming surge of comfort flow from mind to body. As I recall, I was actually stunned while listening to this most hauntingly beautiful, raw song. Immediately, as the song ended, I called the DJ and discovered that Jolie Holland was my new favorite lady songwriter/musician.
At that time, her cd was self-released and I purchased it from CD Baby that very night (management contact info. printed right on the disk). Since then, I have listened to Catalpa so many times that I now know every nuance of Jolie's vocal stylings on each song, from trills to whistles to coughs; but each time I play it, I still feel that haunting, tranquil comfort that I felt the first time I heard "All the Morning Birds" over two years ago.
I was lucky to see Jolie perform at NYC's Joe's Pub following the release of Escondida in June 2004. There I met her twin sister, a very lovely woman named Joy, and witnessed a captivating performance by Jolie that I, personally, will never, ever, forget. I sat through the whole performance nearly motionless as I lost myself in her musical ambiance.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to catch Jolie at this years SXSW music festival due to over-capacity at her venue. Nonetheless, I'm proud that she has acheived that great a response in today's music scene.
What I find to be rare about Jolie is her ability to convey something real, so real that it can't be put into words, through her music. I think that's why people so often describe it as haunting. It haunts you in a way that it touches your soul and tickles your bones, so to speak. And Jolie's soothing voice just creeps into your ears so sweetly. . . .
I've never reviewed a CD before now, but here goes: Catalpa is an honest and raw CD made by a woman that dares to create a new genre of contemporary music by recreating sounds and styles of what has long since passed in american popular culture. Yet her music is not so much a nostalgic recreation of an older sound so much as it is an extension of it's evolution. That's my opinion, anyway.
Jolie, thank you for being who you are. I don't know you personally, but I love you spiritually. Your songs, at times, have been my best friends.
Description of Catalpa
Catalpa is the self-produced debut CD from Texas-bred, San Francisco-based singer-songwriter, Jolie Holland. Catalpa will appeal to fans of Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Cat Power, Will Oldham, Woody Guthrie and Rickie Lee JonesAmong the most stunning debuts of 2003, Catalpa was initially self-released by Ms. Holland in January, but word quickly spread beyond her San Francisco home of this strikingly talented singer who sounds like Billie Holiday covering Cat Power versions of Appalachian folk songs. After a bidding war, the album was re-released on Anti--worth noting because it makes her the first up-and-comer to sign with the same label as Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Solomon Burke. When Holland made these recordings, she hadn't set out to make an album at all; some tunes were demos and others were simply recordings made to teach her songs to potential accompanists. Holland helped found Canadian alt-folk act the Be Good Tanyas, and, although she left them due to creative differences, her music is similar to that of the Tanyas--just stranger, sparser, and more haunting. The most apt reference point might be the '60s folk singer Karen Dalton, but Holland's voice is so strong and sweet the nearest analog might actually be Van Morrison circa 1968. Her voice floats about like the loveliest bumblebee in flight on "All the Morning Birds," while the ghosts of Bessie Smith and Geechie Wiley are channeled on the acoustic blues stomp "Black Hand Blues." --Mike McGonigal
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