Nina Nastasia October 10, 2006

New York singer/songwriter Nina Nastasia gained much critical acclaim for her 2002 album, 'The Blackened Air.' The songs of Tom Brosseau, a North Dakota native, touch on, in Brosseau's words, "abandoned buildings, new love, the praireland, being haunted, roaming around, and being thrilled and killed." It is the work of a master storyteller, who draws from such diverse influences as Marty Robbins, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, and Billie Holiday.