Laurelyn Dossett, contemporary folk singer and songwriter from North Carolina, has had her songs recorded by Levon Helm and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. But her work as an artist over the past 20 years has been more regionally bound. Now with the new album How Many Moons, produced in Durham with Hiss Golden Messenger’s MC Taylor, Dossett emerges as one of the best veteran songwriters you may not have heard of.
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