Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Lewis
Matt Ashare wrote in the Boston Phoenix: "The disc is … credited to Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, a pair of Kentucky-bred, gospel-trained harmonizers named Chandra and Leigh. … Rabbit Fur Coat gives Lewis the opportunity to explore some of the subtleties of that fresh, clean-scrubbed, Ivory-soap voice of hers. … She doesn't resort to cheap tricks: the closest thing to a novelty is a cover of the Traveling Wilburys nugget 'Handle with Care,' in full 12-string Byrdsy production with [Conor] Oberst, album producer Matt 'M.' Ward, and Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard helping out. It's a veritable indie hootenanny. … Beyond that, Rabbit Fur Coat does exactly what a solo project should: it allows Lewis to test some new waters without drowning in the deep end. When she sings 'My Mama never warned me about my own destructive appetite' against a slow, front-porch swing, she's splitting the difference between Rilo Kiley and Patsy Cline with deference toward both, and with a playfulness that's as endearing as it is infectious" ("Roots Canals: The Country Excursion of Jenny Lewis, the Elected, and Neko Case," 3/17/06).
Matt Ashare wrote in the Boston Phoenix: "The disc is … credited to Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, a pair of Kentucky-bred, gospel-trained harmonizers named Chandra and Leigh. … Rabbit Fur Coat gives Lewis the opportunity to explore some of the subtleties of that fresh, clean-scrubbed, Ivory-soap voice of hers. … She doesn't resort to cheap tricks: the closest thing to a novelty is a cover of the Traveling Wilburys nugget 'Handle with Care,' in full 12-string Byrdsy production with [Conor] Oberst, album producer Matt 'M.' Ward, and Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard helping out. It's a veritable indie hootenanny. … Beyond that, Rabbit Fur Coat does exactly what a solo project should: it allows Lewis to test some new waters without drowning in the deep end. When she sings 'My Mama never warned me about my own destructive appetite' against a slow, front-porch swing, she's splitting the difference between Rilo Kiley and Patsy Cline with deference toward both, and with a playfulness that's as endearing as it is infectious" ("Roots Canals: The Country Excursion of Jenny Lewis, the Elected, and Neko Case," 3/17/06).
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