Spins: Chris Whitley, Soft Dangerous Shores

I met up with Whitley last summer to talk about this haunting CD for an All Things Considered profile, and you can listen to the result here. Malcolm Burn, who produced Whitley's still-fresh debut Living with the Law, is responsible for the otherworldly electronic elements behind Whitley's raw National guitar and deep-soul vocals. Very hard to pigeonhole, very hard to forget.