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Described by Emmylou Harris as a cross between Laura Nyro and Rickie Lee Jones, with a bluegrass element lurking, Lainie Marsh studied music at Boston's Berklee College and subsequently plied the singing and songwriting trades in Los Angeles before coming to Nashville. The Hills Will Cradle Thee features a stellar cast of musicians, including Ketch Secor of The Old Crow Medicine Show, pedal steel virtuoso Bucky Baxter, and Kent Goodson, longtime keyboard player with George Jones. This is brave record, down home and exotic at once, from an Appalachian artist not worried about getting the Appalachian thing right. The Hills Will Cradle Thee surpasses hackneyed narratives of the coal mining experience to achieve a unique chronicle of one mountaineer's odyssey through what lies yonder, delivered up with a maverick vocal style.