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Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review Dear Herman's debut album, "Sincerely, Dorothy." Buy the album here: https://dearherman.bandcamp.com/album/sincerely-dorothy * * * Words by Jacob Zlomke With Sincerely, Dorothy, Lincoln folk-duo Dear Herman issues something of a critical challenge. It’s an 11-track narrative wherein characters are inseparable from the music that brings them to life. To listen only to the album’s music would be to somehow resist getting swept up in Crystal Davy’s rich characterization. Further, as developed in tandem with a full-scale theatrical production of that narrative, performed January 17 and 18 at the Haymarket Theatre in Lincoln, the task of looking at Sincerely, Dorothy on strictly its musical merits becomes even more convoluted. Davy and sister/bandmate Melissa Taylor are students of Allison Krauss and Emmylou Harris, developing an active woman narrator who tells her story through close harmonies and rich acoustic guitars. Where musically, Dear Herman takes cues fr