She frolicked through the hushed prairies of Arizona as a child, but Kassi Valazza currently lives and works in hip Portland. Between those two extremes is also where the music of the album Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing resides. Her songs seem to come from an old country radio station while she sings like an agonized
Loretta Lynn or
Patsy Cline. Typical vintage country & western songs with grating
… acoustic guitar and howling pedal steel. Together with her band, she then manages to give hypnotic psychedelic edges to the songs. For example, Watching The Planes Go By suddenly gets stuck in a droning chord and two electric guitars begin winding around each other. As a result, the beautiful Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing takes on a pleasantly floaty atmosphere. (MR)more
