In Brief

The folk side of blues icon Hurt’s folk-blues equation gets the play here, with light-fingered picking and easy-ambling singing applied to heroic myth (Beck’s “Stagolee”), gospel (John Hiatt’s “I’m Satisfied”) and scenes from life (Steve & Justin Earle’s “Candy Man”). Executive producer Peter Case teams with Dave Alvin for a rich “Monday Morning Blues,” while Geoff Muldaur (with two daughters) echoes his boho-hippie jug-band past with the giddy “Chicken.” But it’s the three female contributors--Lucinda Williams, Victoria Williams and Gillian Welch who take the most distinctive approaches.

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