Give Up Your Ghosts

She calls herself a singer-songwriter, but as soon as Rebecca Loebe leans into the first notes of Give Up Your Ghosts, her first release for Blue Corn Music, that definition starts to seem woefully inadequate. Loebe is not just another talent. She's a talent - a sophisticated, mature writer with a relevant point of view and an assured, nuanced voice that's both elegant and earthy, powerful and delicate, with a range and depth she hints at more than flashes. When the moment's right, however, she'll glide up a scale like Norah Jones, or drop right into a crag in Fiona Apple's sidewalk.