Old-fashioned Americana from southwestern New Jersey, compliments of an exacting group of time-displaced ne'er-do-wells bafflingly adept at writing songs they have no business even attempting.
... Say some. Listen, though, and hear these 'wells thought in the wrong get it right. Well right. In every way. True to its roots, and to the greats, pedal steel coyly moseys in and out of frame, drifting with bits of flickering harmonica, amid that traditional inching pace. But—it does more...
Nowadays, the all-too-often backseatable: thoughtful, substantive lyricism that forces the listener to address his very core; the always near-impossible: delivering unsettlingly dark lyrics with a sound belying optimism, the down-on-the-upside effect—something most all that attempt fail.
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