Artist Sarah Jarosz
Another in a string of preternaturally gifted, young female singer-songwriters rising up out of the I-35 corridor (see also: fellow Austinite Ariel Abshire, Denton's Sarah Jaffe), Sarah Jarosz possesses a lived-in voice that belies her 19 years, and she has a way with traditional bluegrass string instruments that puts most pluckers three times her age to shame. On Jarosz's 2009 debut, Song Up In Her Head, the dusky qualities of her voice lend themselves well to a pair of covers—The Decemberists' "Shankill Butchers" and a deceptively bright take on Tom Waits' "Come On Up To The House"—but for all her worldliness, there's still a lot of searching and youthful ache in her original compositions.
Updated 04/14/2010
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