After a long delay, the former bluegrass prodigy emerges an altogether different creature: a singer-songwriter performing apart from a band, exquisitely pensive even in her approach to the mandolin.
The singer/poet/actor/activist's newest opus is another slice of genre-agnostic, cultural agitprop inspired by a fictional miner-turned-hacker in the African nation of Burundi.
Our first new mix of 2016 includes a David Bowie cover from Glen Hansard, premieres from Ray LaMontagne, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Laura Gibson and more.