Voluptuous, hypnotic, more than a little distracted - Jolie Holland's voice could be that of the strange cookoo bird in Clarence Ashley's haunted old Appalachian ballad. …Holland's hornlike, sometimes wordless phrasing is anything but quaint; singing just about everywhere but on the beat, she's obviously listened as closely to Erykah Badu's "Tyrone" as she has to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit." Not just the sum of things you've heard before, these knowing, unvarnished work tapes constitute a sort of transcendental blues, an act of love and theft by a child who's clearly got her own. (Bill Friskics-Warren) Feb '04 (Tracks magazine)