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This World Is Not My Home
from CITY NEWSPAPER, Rochester, NY: February 1, 2006
by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Backed by an extraordinary cast that also includes guitarist JimboMathus,
mandolinist Tommy "T-Bone" Burroughs, and producer Paul Taylor, LaVere
haunts this finely crafted roots music like some modern spirit traveling
backwards in time. She strikes a fine balance between eerie, awkward, and
lovely with her voice, sounding neither from our world nor from the bygone
world she re-creates in song.
Free of the over-calculation and repressive purism that bogs down too much
"old-time" music though, LaVere lifts traditional sounds to glorious places
they seem never to have been.
