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More Information �In part it�s pixie spectacle that has helped Those Darlins gain notice. All three women switched instruments over the course of the night, and all took turns singing lead. A couple of minutes in, Jessi Darlin, let out a hellacious shriek, and then the band, which until then had loped along seemingly content to mildly tweak the conventions of classic country music, began to stretch in unexpected ways. Up next was �Hang On,� a Link Wray cover, which they played like a psychedelic-punk Allman Brothers workout, and which was the first time everyone on stage smiled all at once. After that came a cover of �The Witch,� by the garage-rock outfit the Sonics. By this point Nikki was barking the lyrics, fully awake. Those Darlins, a trio from Murfreesboro, Tenn., just released their self-titled debut album (on the Oh Wow Dang label), a modest and sometimes clever collection of old-timey country originals � and, in the case of two Carter Family covers, actual old country songs.� - New York Times Email a friend