FOLK-POP
On her new album, Ingrid Michaelson builds upon her strummy breakthrough hit, 2007's "The Way I Am," with more fetching folk-pop. Take the ridiculously upbeat title tune, on which she comes off like the distaff answer to Jack Johnson. On other tracks, such as the lilting, waltz-like "The Chain," Michaelson shows that she owes a big debt to that mother of all female singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell.
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