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Freight Train Boogie
Hang on to your hats 'cause here comes a word that is fairly foreign in these parts: this one is sweet. Like wow, this girl is good. Ok, admittedly not a very dissertating assessment, but when a release gets this good, words have a tendency to become superfluous. Herring's antecedents lie in bluegrass, and her vision has been termed
American Gothic but neither term gives her what she's due. She's a songwriter par excellence, (e.g "Fair and Tender Ladies" rates another wow), got a voice that could
charm the balls off a brass monkey, (nothing vulgar there, reference Royal Navy lore), and the cred to rope in backup musicians too stellar and numerous to recount here. Did I mention that she's also the coproducer? Lantana is forty minutes, (too damn short by half!), of unadulterated listening pleasure.
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