(Star Anna & the Laughing Dogs play this Friday, July 23 at the Columbia City Theatre and Saturday, July 24 at the GreenNote Festival at the Seattle Center Musical Amphitheater/Fountain Green Stage opening for Amos Lee.)

"And I just want to burn your memory away, every impression you made," Star Anna sings on her second album on midway stormer "Burn," like a woman torching a bridge between past loves held too closely and a future in which she can survive. She and her Laughing Dogs came from Ellensburg in 2008, and they sound like they sang basement blues and practiced garage chops till they perfected a roots-rock feel as heated and homespun as Lone Justice, Jason & the Nashville Scorchers, and up to anything you'll hear from the big shows in Ballard.

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