Only 16 years of age during recording, New Orleans fiddler/songwriter/singer Amanda Shaw makes an impressive debut with "Pretty Runs Out," an album that runs a fairly wide gamut of musical styles but never sounds like it comes from anyplace other than her home town. The title track, which opens the album, carries with it a faint whiff of the new wave ‘80s, and the funky beats and snotty lyrics on “Brick Wall” somehow manage to sound like a French Quarter version of middle-period Talking Heads.