Chrysta Bell – This Train - Produced By David Lynch
David Lynch returns with another dispatch of recorded songsmithery, this time channeled through his new chanteuse protégée, Miss Chrysta Bell. Bell has a stunning voice, soft and smooth, but with a powerful blues streak underneath, and the songs on This Train show similarities to Lynch’s work with Angelo Badalamenti for Julee Cruise’s two excellent albums made in the late-’80s/early-’90s, but here the space-jazz influence is swapped for an ethereal, ghostly railroad blues