The Blackened Air: Clear Vinyl LP Anoushka Shankar This time around they bring

This time around they bring in Robert Johnsons’ howling ‘Me And The Devil Blues’

Tomorrow's Dust

and Haley hopes the music yields more

the avid Mountain Goats fanbase has demanded more and we are happy to acquiesce

and two vocalizers

The Blackened Air: Clear Vinyl LP Anoushka Shankar This time around they bringOn The Blackened Air (her second album but first for Touch and Go, originally released in 2002), Nina Nastasia and her band are not content to just support a vocal melody; they pry it apart and look down its throat. The stringed and wind instruments (viola, cello, mandolin, accordion, bowed saw, acoustic and electric guitars) reach up out of the songs into rarefied territory. Little stories of Peeping Toms and the police lights they bring with them,