Jolie Holland - "Catalpa". Precioso CD editado en Anti, 2003. Country Blues, Piedmont Blues, Texas Blues. 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, & Rickie Lee Jones. "On "I Wanna Die," the spirit of the Carter Family is invoked with a beautifully sung two-part harmony, & a muted banjo. The song is dark, end of the road Appalachian country. Holland sets William Butler Yeats' mighty poem "Wandering Angus" to music as well, & she does a mean cover of Hattie Hudson's "Black Hand..."