Paste Pick: The New Orleans duo’s second album is full of tonal psychosis, whip-smart melodies, chatty pedal steel, and nifty, out-of-pocket lyrical assertions. It’s rare to find a band this good this early.
Q&A: The alt-country legend sat down with Paste to discuss bringing courage to her vocation, what it takes to write political music that lives up to her hero Bob Dylan’s, and her most recent album, World’s Gone Wrong.