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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.