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Alela Diane

Last album: February 17, 2009
First published: April 20, 2009
Downloads: 3094 albums downloaded

Biography

Alela Diane is an up-and-coming U.S. singer-songwriter. Her gentle acoustic style has been described as "campfire gospel". If you imagine a continuum from the Carter family to Gillian Welch, ending up near Joanna Newsom, this album is it. Rural rather than country, ancient but modern. Rough Trade Shops Album of the year 2007. Alela Diane Menig (b April 20, 1983, Nevada City, California, USA) is an American singer and songwriter, who is associated with the psych folk and New Weird America musical genres.