YouTube Live: Jolie Holland’s “Mad Tom of Bedlam”

By Sarah Luczko on January 24th, 2009

The fiddle she plays on “Mad Tom of Bedlam” sounds like an old metal cereal box, the inside sounding resonantly hollow, like the acoustics you’d find in a cement-floored recital hall. This is enough to make me swoon, but you might say that these are minor details. Wait, let’s start again. Jolie Holland knows her [...]