Jolie Holland
Crystal Ballroom
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
May 17, 2024
8:00 PM EDT
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Presenting Buck Meek (of Big Thief) Jolie Holland ALL AGES // GENERAL ADMISSION
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The Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre is a live event space in the heart of Davis Square in Somerville, Massachusetts.
The original ballroom was built in 1914 when...
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Jolie Holland Biography
Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song—jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy. She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers, singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that's where the beauty lies. As evident on her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song. In fact she thrives on the red hot center of a musical composition, in all its strange and brutal detail. Note how easily the line “I’ve been taken outside and I’ve been brutalized” trips off her tongue in Joe Tex’s “The Love You Save.”
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