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Review: The long awaited third album from Nora Brown was recorded at the historic St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights, and is about as strong an advertisement for joining her growing legions of fans as you could ask for. A marvel of dexterity, the acclaimed New York artist turns her hand to a dizzying array of instruments over the course of the record.

These include three separate banjos, one of which is more than 130 years old (having first belonged to her great-great grandfather), and another five-stringer once owner by her mentor, New Lost City Ramblers member John Cohen, which belongs in the permanent collection at the Library of Congress. Random-is background facts done, again we find Brown seemingly saturated in the culture, heritage, and sounds of her homelands, straddling Americana, alternative rock, bluegrass, folk, soul and pop in a way that seems effortless, if it weren't all also so deeply personal.