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Dusty Roads Blues and Americana

A current take on classic sounds, this collection combines traditional blues riffs and guitar changes with contemporary orchestral elements and percussion. Some songs are more relaxed, with a calm confidence perfect for illuminating the beauty of a sweeping country landscape, while others have a mean edge fit for motorcycles and dirt roads.

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    1. This Way Child (Inst.)

    4:58

    This hopeful track with 90s percussion and playful guitar rolls into town looking for trouble and maybe a new beginning

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    2. House on Fire (Inst.)

    3:19

    This happy banjo jam with driving percussion is taken for a ride with soaring vocals and an inspired guitar solo. Summer might be ending but we’ll always have the beach house.

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    3. Rank and File (Inst.)

    4:03

    Slide guitar opens up for a hooky minor melody in this backwood American bonfire jam.

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    4. Devil Gets His Due (Inst.)

    3:08

    Improvised percussion accompany this beach guitar in this catchy drum circle hit. Real drums and a wailing guitar come in to take this track off the beach and into the bar.

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    5. Eight State Quarters and a Liberty Nickel

    1:05

    There’s an informal opening to this guitar virtuoso’s fast paced run, moving confidently between the delta blues and a punky acoustic solo.

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    6. looking for signs (Inst.)

    3:39

    This is a hopeful and lyrical middle american ballad has haunting piano and driving banjo accompanied by wailing electric guitar.

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    7. Lullabye Three (Inst.)

    2:15

    Someone is looking for trouble in this foreboding and bluesy down home track. Footsteps and other ambient tones give a menacing vibe.

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    8. Montana Girl

    4:15

    A track of electronic beats and ambient industrial tones goes back home to its roots with reflective guitar and finds a hopeful balance.

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    9. Murky

    2:39

    This sublte and moody southern tune evokes images of a setting orange sun over a road that stretches on for days.

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    10. Music and Medicine

    5:16

    A broken toy piano and didgeridoo open this ominous swamp track. Cash register bells and the occasional guitar lick punctuate this brooding trip to the worst hospital you’ve thankfully never been to.

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    11. Red Clay Pass

    2:12

    Slide guitar and a quick paced melodic solo keep this track moving. If the road is calling this track is answering.

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    12. Reverend Hubbard

    3:15

    The jangle of keys keeps this bluesy delta blues jam moving. With a flair of Led Zeppelin and Keb Mo.

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    13. Shake Some Dust (Inst.)

    3:27

    This track is a hopeful blend of stadium rock and country jam, with a U2 quality and a Stevie Ray Vaughn solo.

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    14. Toad

    4:12

    Road shuffle. Minor slide guitars over southern acoustics. Strange pans and fx. Turns into chaos by end. Little focus but good vibe captured. 3:20 on is mellow. Fades into one last distorted guitar rising up.