HOLLY GOLIGHTLY- Truly She is None Other
With a neat cameo on the most recent White Stripes album, Elephant, maybe Holly Golightly's time for true fame has finally come. Way cooler than her music biz newbie hosts, she's got the kind of deep coolness that Jack and Meg can only hope to achieve with time (although props to them for the props to her). Maybe one important difference is that she seems so genuinely real, even though like Billy Childish, her former svengali, her shtick is a bit record store kitsch: as Pitchforkmedia.com describes it, Golightly's repertoire consists of "Languid juke-joint blues, department-store calico country, smoky old rhythm and blues and girl-group rock'n'roll." But frankly, this is no problem. Golightly makes it real and viable, as though it was fresh like new. As the title says, Truly She is None Other, or, in other words, a singular talent. Indeed.
