- It's hard not to notice the audacious rise of Miss Lanie Lane. Collaborations and tours with the likes of Justin Townes Earle, Clare Bowditch and Jack White, not to mention her own big international tours and festival appearances - all before the release of her debut record. If you've been living under your rock, blissfully unaware of the young sensation and the songs of hers that've been flying about here and there, you've emerged just in time to cop that debut To The Horses. It's a good place to come on board too, giving you a a broadside of all those styles she's capable of. First you get the old time country rockin' cover of Janis Martin's ever-so-flirty Bang Bang, then the 50s rockin' and rollin' ode to Lanie's favourite guitar, Betty Baby, swiftly followed by the slinky 'ol jazz groove of Like Me Meaner and even you dwellers-under-boulders might have heard the bluesy pout of the What Do I Do coz it was the theme tune to the TV Series Crownies. The key signifier in this welter of styles is the ol' timey bit, taking a great big scoop of AM radio warmth from the 30s, 40s and 50s. For all that she channels the music of yesteryear like a dusty muscial encyclopedia (Volume: American music 1930-'50) it's quite disarming to hear her quoted, saying that she has little idea about musical history or where exactly she gets her influences. I think at least part of this arises from a desire not to get pigeon-holed as a retro / specialist / niche performer who'll make the cover of Trad And Now but not Rolling Stone. Well, I don't think Lanie has any worries about getting on magazine covers and, more importantly she's hardly playing to just the blue-rinse set - she can get anyone jumping right now. Oh, one last thing: don't pronounce it 'Lainey', as Ms. Lane herself said: "...it's Lanny, y'know? Rhymes with fanny." Well, you'll hardly forget that now, will you.