Bethany and Rufus

Bethany and Rufus: 900 Miles

by Donald Elfman
April 14, 2007

At the celebrated and celebratory New Orleans Jazz Festival, a walk through the fairgrounds is an astonishing experience as the strains of myriad musics come together in the air and everything feels connected. The same feeling is to be had from the debut album by Bethany Yarrow and Rufus Cappadocia. With a minimum number of voices--guitar, cello, vocal and some percussion--the duo creates colors and textures that suggest a world of musics coalescing. Yarrow is the daughter ...