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"Although she began collecting awards for her poetry as a teen, including being named National Youth Poet Laureate in 2019, Chicagoland's Kara Jackson is far from a writer who dabbles in music. She started piano lessons as early as age five, has referred to singing as her first love, and released her debut singer/songwriter EP within weeks of the laureate designation. Even though the EP, a spare acoustic-guitar outing, garnered positive attention for its blunt observations and turns of phrase as well as Jackson's husky, authoritative voice, it may have done little to prepare the music world for the stark theatricality and poignancy of her first album".

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"On her brutally honest debut album, the Chicago singer-songwriter takes folk music and bends it to her will, exploring agony and adoration in equal measure ... Her storytelling is masterful, filled with earnest lyricism and a knack for arresting imagery".

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"Kara Jackson's voice is one of the best in folk and country in recent memory; more than anything else, the songs on her debut album (...) gain their power from being sung in her rich, near-plainspoken alto".

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"Although she began collecting awards for her poetry as a teen, including being named National Youth Poet Laureate in 2019, Chicagoland's Kara Jackson is far from a writer who dabbles in music. She started piano lessons as early as age five, has referred to singing as her first love, and released her debut singer/songwriter EP within weeks of the laureate designation. Even though the EP, a spare acoustic-guitar outing, garnered positive attention for its blunt observations and turns of phrase as well as Jackson's husky, authoritative voice, it may have done little to prepare the music world for the stark theatricality and poignancy of her first album".

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"On her brutally honest debut album, the Chicago singer-songwriter takes folk music and bends it to her will, exploring agony and adoration in equal measure ... Her storytelling is masterful, filled with earnest lyricism and a knack for arresting imagery".

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"Kara Jackson's voice is one of the best in folk and country in recent memory; more than anything else, the songs (...) gain their power from being sung in her rich, near-plainspoken alto".

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"et album, der primært er poetisk markant, men også har musikalsk gennemslagskraft ... Med sin støvede, mørke stemme og sine usødede poetiske ballader om beskidte lagner, blå mærker og tømmermænd i mange afskygninger, er det svært ikke at tænke på Kara Jackson som en slags arvtager til Tracy Chapman ... et noget ujævnt album, der står stærkest, når Kara Jacksons musikalske personlighed er mest fritskrabet".

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"et album, der primært er poetisk markant, men også har musikalsk gennemslagskraft ... Med sin støvede, mørke stemme og sine usødede poetiske ballader om beskidte lagner, blå mærker og tømmermænd i mange afskygninger, er det svært ikke at tænke på Kara Jackson som en slags arvtager til Tracy Chapman ... et noget ujævnt album, der står stærkest, når Kara Jacksons musikalske personlighed er mest fritskrabet".

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