A review of my ANCESTORS single that appeared in a 1997 issue of The Space Age Bachelor… I’m not sure which issue, so I’m guessing on the date.

I’m absolutely in love with this single — the singer, too, and not just the songs. Edith Frost put out an album I regrettably didn’t hear on Drag City last year, but this single points to labelmates Palace’s new country rock — but Edith Frost is somehow much more than this. "Ancestors" is beautiful in the way that a dream that is completely scary, chilling, and forlorn can still reveal heavenly scenery. "Secrets" loosens things up, pulls you back from the abyss, with a gorgeous tune with a guitar sound like the clomp of a horse and the ghost of Patsy Cline. The fact that country music’s best singer is not getting nearly the respect she deserves and on an indie-rock label is perhaps as condemning a statement as can be made about the state of modern county and western music.