Best New Bands » Joy Williams http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-civil-wars-barton-hollow/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-civil-wars-barton-hollow/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:00:00 +0000 Listening to the alt-country duo The Civil Wars’ debut album put me through the emotional wringer. Joy Williams and John Paul White write and perform heart-wrenching duets full of breathy vocals accompanied by sparse acoustic instruments. With voices like theirs that harmonize so beautifully, that’s all they really need. The subject matter of the songs-

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