Jolie Holland is an exceptional singer, songwriter and recording artist.

I’ve loved her music since I picked up a handcrafted album, Catalpa, she pressed up 100 copies of back at the beginning of the 2000s.

Since then she got signed to Anti- and has released five more albums, the the latest being the mind-blowing Red Dark Sea which will be released on May 20, 2014.

Listen to it here at NPR right now.

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]

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