Crash and Ride - Episode 85: Jolie Holland

Jolie Holland is an extraordinarily gifted singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Los Angeles, California. She's possessed of an incredible insight and lyricism and she writes gorgeous and vivid songs that have been praised by luminaries such as Tom Waits. She escaped an abusive and toxic upbringing in a devout family of Jehovah's Witnesses and spent many years on the road, only to eventually settle down and create an enormous and stunning body of work.

Jolie is currently collaborating with a group of activists and families to produce a benefit called "Abolition 2021," which will create a living space and activist space near the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. In her words, "I've been helping produce this benefit to create a free hospitality house for family and lawyers of incarcerated people near Angola aka Louisiana State Penitentiary. It's out in the middle of nowhere like an ugly secret, difficult to get to, even for people with money. Reallocating city budgets from violence to community support, ending slave labor and abolishing the death penalty are the big goals. Creating this hospitality house is one important step we can take to improve people's lives. The house will serve as a hub for activists."

The show will be online April 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th, and you can buy your tickets here:

https://noonchorus.com/abolition-2021/

You can hear more of Jolie's music here:

https://joliehollandmusic.com/

Also, as I mentioned in the intro, I've been working for a Harm Reduction organization here in Athens, and you can help us out here:

https://www.accesspointga.org/donate