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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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Track List
- Mexico City
- Corrido Por Buddy
- Palmyra
- You Painted Yourself In
- Fox In Its Hole
- Your Big Hands
- Sweet Loving Man
- Love Henry
- The Future
- Enjoy Yourself
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