Click to listen to Ana Egge's 'Hole In Your Halo'

You can't say this North Dakota-raised singer-songwriter doesn't have range. Her 2007 Lazy Days, a breezy concept LP about idleness, covered Arcade Fire and the Kinks. Her latest, a team-up with producer Steve Earle, is folk-rock storytelling stained red and flush with madness. "Blood on the floor," she sings sweetly on "Evil," a standout on a set that's as upbeat musically as it is chilling lyrically. Egge rocks harder than usual on "Driving With No Hands" and works her sublime lower-register on the Richard Thompson-flavored "Shadow Fall." And her sprightly reading of Charlie Rich's kiss-off "There Won’t Be Anymore" places her tuneful noir in a long American tradition of depressing feel-good music. Thank the Puritans.

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“Satisfied”

Only the genius of Tom Waits could combine the subject of mortality, a reoccurring theme in his work, with wordplay that name checks both Mick and Keith, whom he calls "Mr. Jagger" and "Mr. Richards," and the title of their magnum opus, "Satisfaction." And to show just how cool Waits really is, he even got Mr. Richards to play along, one of nine guest appearances the guitarist has made on three Waits albums. "This growling roadhouse stomp is a late-breaking response to the Stones' greatest hit," Rolling Stone said of the track.