It occurs to me I have yet to feature a female artist here. Ain't gonna happen today, though.

Artist: Grant Lee Buffalo
Album: Mighty Joe Moon

This album has a rustic, Civil War-era Americana feel. It's kind of Neil Young-ish, except that Grant Lee Phillips has a much more appealing, versatile voice, that makes me weak in the knees. The album's mostly quiet and acoustic, but tracks like "Lone Star Song" and "Sing Along" rock in a dissonant, cacophonous way that I love. This is another one where the lyrics are hard to pin down, creating atmospheric sketches rather than explicit statements. One song that is easy to understand, though, is "Honey, Don't Think", one of my favorite love songs of all time. I don't love every song on the album, but I appreciate them all artistically, and it's an intriguing, evocative work all around.

By the way, if you've ever watched Gilmore Girls, Grant Lee Phillips is the wandering troubadour who sometimes appears in Stars Hollow. Just a little piece of trivia for ya there.