The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow – review

(Columbia)Jack White has had nothing to do with the unstoppable rise – Grammy awards and all – of the Civil Wars, but his methodology is written all over this attractive debut, released in the US a year ago. Joy Williams and John Paul White appear in virtually all photos wearing what amounts to a uniform (she in black dress, he in black suit and tie), and spruce up the wellsprings of their music (old-time American country and folk) with modern trappings, giving it a feel at once ageless...

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