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AARP / New Sounds
February 16th, 2008
FOLK-PHILOSOPHER CARRIE NEWCOMER
"I am a fool whose life's been spent/Between what's said and what is meant." sings Carrie Newcomer on her luminous Geography of Light. With the vocal purity of Joan Baez, and an activist philosophy to match, the former truck stop waitress describes the gray spaces between absolutes, with a tight band and an Appalachian twang.