Anaïs Mitchell: Hadestown | CD review

(Righteous Babe)For her fourth album, folk singer Anaïs Mitchell has made a bold leap: a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, reset to the Great Depression, and soundtracked by American roots music, incorporating country, blues and jazz in the manner of Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions project. Mitchell plays Eurydice, with Justin "Bon Iver" Vernon playing Orpheus, Ben Knox Miller of the Low Anthem as Hermes, and Greg Brown and Ani DiFranco as Hades and Persephone. But the star o...

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