Jolie Holland Will Be Found

Jolie Holland's music is too eclectic to reach the mainstream. I think she'll end up on a Collector's Choice Music catalog 20 years from now. You know the mail order catalog that specializes in resurrecting forgotten singer-songwriters on the 60's/70's. She'll be labeled as someone who put out great albums, but was too out there for the masses. On her second proper album, Springtime For The Masses, her jazzbo voice/coupled with folk leanings, once again makes for intentive listening. But if you like your folk/jazz/pop uptempo, you can pass. Holland's forte is pre-Rock female vocalist simplicity. I loved her first, Escondida, and am on board for this. Only the lead track gives us a love song, and most of the rest are the usual tales of love lost. She's not for everyone. Her vocals may take on pretension, if you're not ready for them. But I find her whole package compelling.