Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Dirt Don’t Hurt (Transdreamer)

Golightly and the Brokeoffs are a duo, which I suppose makes her partner, Lawyer Dave, the Brokeoffs. They treat country blues like a fetish item, but not like a Faberge egg, and that stance is far more appealing than that of the many Americana artists who try to revisit that music and erase some of the distance between themselves and the songs in their original contexts. They’re not invested in notions of authenticity despite the acoustic guitars, banjos and homemade percussion; they’re into the blues as a form of escape, a way of writing that gets them out of their own world. With little concern for verisimilitude and little time at all—five days—they move with an unfussy ease through the songs, which have shades of British garage glam at the edges. Brits never entirely escape glam.