Hadestown

Anais Mitchell’s new album Hadestown is proof that music still has the power to surprise and delight. For starters, the guest list includes some pretty well known names. And it’s an honest-to-god album, the kind whose songs tell a story from beginning to end-specifically, the ancient Greek myth of the poet Orpheus and his doomed quest to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld. Hadestown features a veritable who’s who of modern indie folk/rock: Justin Vernon of Bon Iver plays Orpheus; Gr…