Anais Mitchell, Rachel Ries Opens

From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anais ("uh-NAY-iss") Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. The daughter of "hippie back-to-the-landers" whose father was a novelist and English professor, she remembers her family's home (another farmhouse in the same state) containing "a library full of n