Washington Post Feature

Crain, a 22-year-old Choctaw Indian from Shawnee, Okla., boasts a twangy, high-pitched soprano and a fondness for impressionist verse. Backed by her tasteful folk-rock band, the Midnight Shivers, the singer-guitarist creates an ominous soundscape of moody guitars and notes bent sharp. She opens her first full-length album, to be released April 28, with the lines "I will give into the dark clouds, and I will sing with the fog in my throat." Her voice is quite clear, but she gives into darkness as she sings about fevers, pay cuts, loneliness, wounds, beasts, floods and J.D. Salinger.