Midrash's Night Dream

I met Alicia Jo Rabins, the violinist of Golem, last year in Basking Ridge, NJ of all places™ and recently reconnected with her. (Much discussion of The Wire ensued, she's a Baltimore area native as well and no stranger to strangers.) Good timing as she's playing a free solo show at Rockwood Music Hall tomorrow night. Fiddler fanatics unite(!), but leave the foam fingers at home.

I'm not sure Sasha Frere-Jones would approve (btw, most excellent rebuttal by Carl Wilson on Slate) but the whitish reference points here are Appalachian, Eastern European Jewish, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sufjan Stevens, etc. Her 2003 Sugar Shack album gets a lot of autumnal play in my iPod. The following track is from a JDub Records compilation.

"Bat Yiftach"

Previously: The 70th Love Song