#gold-diggers

Photo by Rachael Pony Cassells

BY JORDAN MAINZER

We’ve covered the versatility of harpist Mary Lattimore, including her playing live with Yo La Tengo, opening for Iceage and The Black Lips, and contributing to a Marissa Nadler record. Over the past two years, she’s also released excellent collaborative albums with musician Meg Baird and Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan. This October, she gets back to her solo career with her second album for Ghostly International, Silver Ladders, recorded in Cornwall with Neil Halstead from Slowdive. The process was different for both--Lattimore usually records solo, and Halstead had never recorded a harp before. The two released songs from the record suggest not just success but Lattimore’s richest material yet. On “Sometimes He’s In My Dreams”, Halstead’s signature dreamy, solemn guitars are a perfect complement to Lattimore’s quintessentially beatific layered harp. And album opener “Pine Trees” juxtaposes the clarity of her playing with the formlessness of synthesizer hues.

Tonight at 8 PM CST, Lattimore plays an In.Live show presented by Aquarium Drunkard and produced by L.A. recording studio/bar/boutique hotel Gold-Diggers Sound.

“Gold-Diggers, Gamblers and Guns” by Ellen Mansoor Collier

The Jazz Age Mysteries are a fast-paced, funny series about glittering high society in the 1920s, and the seedy underbelly of crime and gangsters.

Gold-Diggers, Gamblers and Guns is the third outing of plucky young reporter Jasmine Cross, currently a society columnist but with a hankering for being a “real” reporter. Although she may be sort-of dating dishy Prohibition Officer James Burton, Jazz gets reluctantly dragged back into the schemes of Galveston Island’s gangsters and gamblers. When Burton is framed for a murder he did not commit, Jazz must put her sleuthing skills into use to try and clear his name, before it’s too late.

The third instalment in the Jazz Age Mysteries doesn’t disappoint. It has all the glamour and glitz of Boardwalk Empire with a feisty heroine, romance and danger. As with most mysteries, the plot is of paramount importance, and the story of Gold-Diggers, Gamblers and Guns is pacy and unpredictable, whilst being very easy to follow. Coupled with smart dialogue and bold characters, it makes this an extremely readable book.