Video: Emily O’Halloran, ‘Crying When It Hurts’

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Emily O’Halloran is high-mileage, which should not be taken derisively, and her music sounds like it. Which should not be read as disparaging, either. The Aussie-born songstress, inveterate hitchhiker and world traveler sings as if she’s carrying the weight of the world – and certainly some of that gravitas is imbued in her mournful Americana. Now based in L.A., she was a coffeehouse performer/busker in New York City a couple of years ago when noted producer Mark Howard (he of the Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel and R.E.M. credits) got ahold of her, and the album they made, “Morphine and Cupcakes” (out this week), is the stuff of bingeing – emotional and otherwise – and its morning after.

||| Live: Emily O’Halloran celebrates her album release Sept. 30 at Room 5.