Premiere: Amanda Jo Williams, ‘Hello Good Morning’

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One minute, Amanda Jo Williams is in the cosmos. The next, she’s in control. The Georgia-bred, L.A.-based songstress is hard to keep up with over the 43 minutes of her new album “The Bear Eats Me” (out Tuesday on Neurotic Yell Records), but that’s half the fun. The other half is playing free association with her cherub’s voice: Here, with childlike wonder, are songs for dank saloons, frisky barn dances, family picnics, long drives on dirt roads and longer afternoons on porch swings. Somehow her time in L.A. hasn’t diminished her ability to go those places musically; in fact, she’s one of a kind in a folk scene that continually seems to breed (or attract) boundary-pushers. Stomp if you must.

||| Download: “Hello Good Morning”

||| Live: Amanda Jo Williams celebrates her album release with a show Thursday night at the Echo featuring Brass Tax, Manhattan Murder Mystery and Dead Dawn.

Photo by Daiana Feuer