Jolie Holland

Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American songs— jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into a stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology.She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers, singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but that’s where the beauty lies. Holland has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song.
Holland was one of the founding members of The Be Good Tanyas.