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Although Orenda Fink made her first splash as the songwriting partner of Maria Taylor, she also became a respected bandleader and solo musician in her own right, drawing upon everything from Haitian folk music to pop/rock in the process. Fink and Taylor first launched their partnership as students at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, which led to the formation of Little Red Rocket several years later. When that group disbanded after two albums -- 1997's Who Did You Pay and 2000's It's in the Sound -- due to the dust-up of Geffen Records' merger with Universal Music Group, the two decamped to Athens, GA, and formed the sulky pop duo Azure Ray. While working to get Azure Ray off the ground, the musicians were also recruited to join Now It's Overhead, which brought them to the attention of that band's label -- Saddle Creek -- as well as its co-founder Conor Oberst. In 2001, both Azure Ray and Now It's Overhead released debut records, and Taylor and Fink took up full-time residence in Oma...