Artist:Jolie HollandReview:Yes, Jolie Holland knows Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues.Over the mariachi horns of "Mexico City," the Texas singerintroduces Jack, who drinks too much because "there was nowhereelse to go." That apocalyptic feeling pervades this sepia-tonedalbum, boosted by M. Ward's scraggly hooks. Holland has a soft spotfor sad sacks — the "ghost-faced junkie" of "Corrido porBuddy," the lover who made her "little heart a graveyard" on"Palmyra" — but her honeyed harmonies keep the mood from...Rating:3.5 Stars

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