Whether or not you were jazzed by her boho antics and philosophical musings, you would have to concede that Texan Edie Brickell cut one of the more idiosyncratic figures in the pop landscape of the last decade. Her wonderfully elastic voice bounced gleefully off the New Bohemians, a band capable of both jazz- and pop-inflected virtuosity and rock & blues rough-and-tumble. The collaboration yielded...

"It's been a long, long time," she says, "like twelve, thirteen, maybe even fourteen years. I definitely have butterflies. But last night I jammed with the band a little bit and they sound so good that I got excited."

That band includes guitar whiz Charlie Sexton, who had been playing with Bob...