Americana is nothing if not a broad brush. In the case of Signe Marie Rustad, it is a genre that stretches as far as her native Norway. Do You Know Something I Don’t is the Norwegian artist’s fifth studio album, if studio is the right word for a recording made live at the Oslo Concert Hall. The intimate Lille Sal has an adjacent recording studio, so we have the unusual mix of a one-take studio recording with a live audience in attendance.
In her native Norway, Rustad has garnered just about every accolade going and is renowned for mixing things up and never making the same album twice. It was this desire to escape the straight-jacket cycle of record and release that led Rustad to toy with the idea of replicating the unique feel of playing in front of an audience,…