Time (The Revelator)

Dark, moody lyrics set to bare plucking, it embraces every emotion. Time will still be adored in a decade.

At the heart of Time is a four-song suite that speaks to American history and rock’n’roll in a lucid, novelistic way that’s more comparable to Greil Marcus than contemporary guitar music.

Undiminished ... is her and partner David Rawlings’ knack for penning originals that any ethnomusicologist would swear must’ve been written in the ’30s and cunningly suppressed till now.