Recommended if you like: Major key old-country shuffles with lyrics about wild dogs, ruined shacks, and hospitals. Derailed/decayed blues. Abandoned noise-folk songs. Talking vocals over ghosted piano rising up from lakebottoms and mine shafts and graves. "Narrative folk." The desert. Montana. The Middlewest. Full-band Americana rumbles like some methy bad-news Waffle House on the interstate about to ERUPT. Also: trailerparks, stolen Ameri-Passes, hitchhiking, distant relatives of Mr. T, reservation blues, endless bus rides, Ed Distler, roadside carnivals 1901, the quote-unquote Indian Wars, pre-history of native peoples, teenage love in backfields, watertowers, the return (and end) of Tom Bluefeather, the rise of Henny Lee Bluefeather, Ben Frank against the world, flashfloods, ranch-hands, marching bands, orphans, gunshots in the dusk, shoplifting from highway gas stations, sleeping under overpasses, the new old west.
Track-listing
1) Greater Mythology Suite 1
a) Concerning the Lineage of Henny Lee Bluefeather
b) The Destroyer
c) 1901, The Riverblack Sideshow and the Birth of Henny Lee Bluefeather and Ben Frank
2) This is the End of Something but It's Not the End of You, instrumental return
3) The New Old West
4) The Ballad of Henny Lee Bluefeather and the Death of Tom Bluefeather
5) On the Ranch
6) The Watertower, the day the Warfield Bucs Beat Hoover High
credits
released September 25, 2013
Adam Gnade, Adam Laidlaw, Chandler Galloway, Chris Cooke, Damon Moon