There's something undefinably urban about the music of Jess Williamson that makes it hard to place her directly in the country music bracket. She certainly has a twang to her music, but her work has shown flashes of Patti Smith and Angel Olsen, not Linda Ronstadt and Neko Case. 'Smoke' is a good case in point: It begins like a country take on the eternal Saturday night but by the end of the song the guitars are surging and we're heading fast towards alt rock territory. The first single from the Sorceress album, it set the scene well for what was to follow.
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