Michael Holland's Simple Truths and Pleasures

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Apropos of its title, Simple Truths and Measures is full of characters looking for a little relief and maybe a little joy but never expecting too much. There's the "Ballad of Eric Rudolph," wherein the Atlanta Olympics bomber who hid in the North Carolina mountains for five years shares his version of truth with a relentless sheriff, a tough judge and a faceless jury. In "Starry Nights," Holland worries about love in the face of his own mortality as he stares at the stars, and the hot banjo lead of "Bring Back that Blue-Eyed Joy" twitters like the nervous vocalist, who wants to hold "something I can be sure of." And Lesley Riddle," named for one of several country music patriarchs who called North Carolina home, looks at music as an emotional panacea, a cure no matter "how bleak my situation."

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Michael Holland's Simple Truths and Pleasures

MICHAEL HOLLAND'S SIMPLE TRUTHS AND PLEASURES

Ask around, and soon enough someone will tell you Jennyanykind should have been one o...

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