Big Time cover

Big Time

Released

At some point, if you’re good enough, you pull into view of your heroes and start overtaking them. Olsen is shoulder-to-shoulder with Dusty Springfield and Tammy Wynette here, with lots of Seventies horns and pedal steel. She has a whiplash vibrato that she turns on and off, and can be both withering and completely vulnerable in the same line reading. Country breaks into a dozen American pieces and Angel Olsen is one of them.

Sasha Frere-Jones

Recommended by

Suggestions
Solo Performance At Belgium 1983 cover

Solo Performance At Belgium 1983

John Cale, TH Twente Band
Run to Ruin cover

Run to Ruin

Nina Nastasia
color theory cover

color theory

Soccer Mommy
Walls cover

Walls

Barbra Streisand
Say Laura cover

Say Laura

Eric Chenaux
3rd cover

3rd

Big Star
Clube Da Esquina cover

Clube Da Esquina

Lô Borges, Milton Nascimento
Star-Crossed cover

Star-Crossed

Kacey Musgraves