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Lou Reid is an alumnus of the Seldom Scene, and his new band Carolina is very much in the Seldom Scene vein with its mix of mandolin, banjo and electric bass and its blend of traditional bluegrass and contemporary folk material. Reid pretty much sticks to mandolin on this album, but it's his Skaggs-like tenor voice that shines through, especially on the modern songs like his own folkish "Hands of Time," Roger Rasnake's country-flavored "Always Thinkin' of You" or the a cappella hymn "Lord Have Mercy on My Soul" (cowritten by Reid and the Seldom Scene's T. Michael Coleman). --Geoffrey Himes