Bob Dylan once said of Karen Dalton, “[she] had a voice like Billie Holiday’s and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed.” Fifteen years after Dalton’s death, this same legacy seems to have been reborn in Minneapolis’s own Lucy Michelle (just replace the word “guitar” with ukulele). Michelle, with her talented backing band The Velvet Lapelles, picks up Dalton’s bluesy style of folk music and takes it backpacking through Europe, introducing it to gypsies and burlesque performers along the way. The result is a vigorous new take on American roots music. (more)
