“Co-founder of The Be Good Tanyas turned singular folk wanderer — a smoky Texan voice channelling Karen Dalton, pre-war jazz, and anti-colonial fire through eight albums of restless American music.”
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Curatorial notes
Jolie Holland co-founded The Be Good Tanyas in Vancouver in the late 1990s and left before their debut album Blue Horse (2000) was released — though her voice is all over it. That departure set the pattern for a career defined by movement: from Texas to New Orleans to the Pacific Northwest to Los Angeles, absorbing the musical traditions of each place and folding them into something that belongs...
