Product Description
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, the London-based duo now relocated to the backwoods of Georgia, will release their new album Medicine County (Transdreamer Records) on March 30, 2010.

Regarding the move to Georgia, Holly says, 'It resembles Texas enough to keep Dave's gun collection. Future plans for the farm include moonshining, recording studio, miniature animal ranching, illegal architecture, and founding the one true church.'

Their music is a lo-fi stew of blues, country and rockabilly, at once avant-garde and old-timey. Playboy.com says, 'Golightly's songs are so fresh and timeless they could have been recorded yesterday or 40 years ago.' Entertainment Weekly called her 'a truly appealing tunesmith.'

Holly Golightly kicked off her musical career in Thee Headcoatees, the legendary all-girl garage band, closely affiliated with U.K. cult legend Billy Childish. She spent eight years as a Headcoatee, and during those years released her first solo record, The Good Things, in 1995. She has appeared on multiple collaborative albums, including the title track for the Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers with The Greenhornes. Together with Billy Childish, where the two celebrate One Chord, One Sound, One Song on the album In Blood. Holly also guested on The White Stripes (Well It's True That) We Love One Another from their platinum selling Elephant. Holly Golightly's discography is a cacophony of albums (studio and live), EPs, singles and 10-inch LPs and iTunes-only releases, and of course, the critically-acclaimed album Dirt Don't Hurt.

1. Forget It
2. Two Left Feet
3. Medicine County
4. I Can't Lose
5. Murder In My Mind
6. Blood On The Saddle
7. When He Comes
8. Escalator
9. Eyes In The Back Of My Head
10. Dearly Departed
11. Don't Fail Me Now
12. Jack O'Diamonds

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A British Rocker Goes to Georgia
Holly Golightly, teamed up with a Texan, sings the blues

By John Jurgensen
March 26, 2010
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Singer Holly Golightly came onto the scene in the early 1990s, fronting a band called Thee Headcoatees and advancing a wave of raw three-chord rock in England. Her brash approach hasn't changed much—"I don't like touchy-feely music," she says—but her setting has. In 2008, Ms. Golightly (born Holly Golightly Smith) bought a six-acre parcel of land in Georgia, where she tends a brood of dogs, horses, geese and chickens. Recently she acquired a pair of goats. "We need to clear some scrub," she says.

Ms. Golightly's rural home, in a dry county 30 minutes from the music-centric city of Athens, shaped the sound of her new album. On the title track, the woozy country blues "Medicine County," she sings, "They got us at their mercy now and the whiskey's running out."

Ms. Golightly's band on the album and an upcoming tour is the Brokeoffs—comprised of one man, the Texas singer and multi-instrumentalist known as Lawyer Dave. In addition, he is the co-owner of the Georgia farm where the two musicians write separately, then converge to hash out the final form of the songs. "There are two ways to argue with her. Neither one works," Lawyer Dave says. Lyrics are a frequent sticking point. Lawyer Dave has "a lot less shame when it comes to the English language," he says. The duo has compiled a list of words and phrases that they have agreed not to sing, including "Florida" and "make love."

On the organ-and-reverb-soaked vamp "Forget It," Ms. Golightly sings with menace, "When you steal a heart that's true, be sure you know just what you do." Other songs, including the twangy duets "Murder In My Mind" and "Eyes in the Back of My Head," also explore the spiteful flipside of love. "It's kind of easier to do than the butterflies and the flowers," Ms. Golightly says. "The material is much more readily available."

She has had her share of musical partners. She made a cameo on the White Stripes' breakout album "Elephant" in 2003, and she contributed to the soundtrack of director Jim Jarmusch's 2005 film "Broken Flowers." But she says her most instructive collaborations were her first, amidst the punk-influenced scene led Billy Childish, a patriarch of British garage rock. Given a four-track recorder by friends, Ms. Golightly learned to simply "push record and play."

That DIY work ethic stuck with her more than any particular musical sound or style, she says. "When you've been part of a little movement in its own right, where not everybody is an expert and it doesn't really matter, you're more likely to flourish."