LOOKBACK MACHiNE: Old Crow Medicine Show

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featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

July 8, 2026

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

We've been featuring these Lookback Episodes for a couple years. As we determine the showcase artist from week to week, we do our best to highlight a diversity of artists, from early influencers and legends to more contemporary americana fixtures and our lesser known favorites. Over the years, we've selected our thirty favorites from artists like Lydia Loveless, Todd Snider, Richmond Fontaine, and so many more. 

This Episode we're calling out the artist that currently sits atop the Americana Radio Charts for both their June Union Made record and their "Last American Waltz" single with Molly Tuttle. Legend tells how Old Crow Medicine Show was discovered by Doc Watson while busking in Boone, North Carolina. Over the years the outfit has been championed by Marty Stuart and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. Of course, "Wagon Wheel" has become one of the most polarizing songs in all of our kind of music (but we'd argue it remains a great song even as it's been over-exposed thanks to Hootie's cover). 

Built largely around the writing of Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua, members of OCMS have included Willie Watson, Gill Landry, Charlie Worsham, Mason Via, Chance McCoy, and others. While their music has become more polished since their 2001 debut, their stew of string band, old time, bluegrass, country and folk (with occasional sightings of punk) has been impressively consistent, and it largely defines the reaches of the americana genre. 

For our playlist below, we've opted primarily for OCMS originals, with some trad and some Dylan thrown in. We've also included a handful of live tracks, acknowledging the ensemble's sterling reputation as a stellar force on stage. 

OLD CROW MEDiCiNE SHOW: thirty favorites

- "Hesitation Blues" Eutaw (2001)

- "Tell It To Me" OCMS (2004)

- "Take 'Em Away"

- "Wagon Wheel"

- "Down Home Girl" Big Iron World (2006)

- "My Good Gal" 

- "James River Blues" 

- "I Hear Them All"

- "Methamphetamine" Tennessee Pusher (2008)

- "Alabama High Test"

- "Caroline" 

- "Fall On My Knees (live)" Live (2008)

- "Levi" Carry Me Back (2012)

- "Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer" Remedy (2014)

- "Sweet Amarillo" 

- "Dearly Departed Friend"

- "Black-Haired Quebecois" Best Of (2017)

- "Obviously 5 Believers (live) 50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde (2017)

- "Dixie Avenue" Volunteer (2018)

- "Old Hickory" 

- "Whirlwind" 

- "Louisiana Woman Mississippi Man (live, ft Margo Price)" Live At the Ryman (2019)

- "I Hope I'm Stoned (When Jesus Takes Me Home)" single (Charlie Worsham) (2019)

- "Paint This Town" Paint This Town (2022)

- "Gloryland" 

- "Belle Meade Cockfight (ft Sierra Ferrell)" Jubilee (2023)

- "Miles Away (ft Willie Watson)" 

- "Store Bought Christmas" OCMS XMAS (2025)

- "Last American Waltz (ft Molly Tuttle)" Union Made (2026)

- "Revolution Now (ft Evan Felker)" 

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IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK:

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

July 7, 2026

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

With our most recent new release date falling on the July 3rd holiday, our inbox has remained unusually empty this week. As we see it, this allows us time to draw your attention to a handful of things we've whiffed at during the first half of 2026. While we did include several of these in a ROUTES-cast or two, we feel we sorely underrepresented them, and would like to repair our mistake by doing so in this Episode. Please know that a couple of these dwell near the fringes of our kind of music, but we've always been very up-front about our commitment to filling in your musical ruts. 

IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK

... or maybe nine?

We'll highlight these in order of appearance, because that's what we do here. 

- Talise, Bowling Green EP  (Run On Records, Feb 5)

We first caught wind of this banjo-wielding Canadian when she was tagged to open for Willi Carlisle on a few dates. More recently, Talise showed up on a Western AF session singing "The Road" from this February EP. We're sure glad there's an interesting story about the dead something hanging from the mic stand. Talise's voice is both reliably trad and deeply original. 

- Ovven, Gnawing At the Cord  (Ovven, Feb 6)

Nashville's Owen Burton is one-third of the band Dallas Ugly (whose 2025 album See Me Now could easily have been in a whiffed Episode for that year). On a whim, Burton phoned Drop Of Sun Studios in Asheville with three songs that producer Alex Farrar agreed to produce. Ovven's debut is thick on guitar a'la MJ Lenderman, but boasts slacker-country lyrics that are more thoughtful:  I read a lot of creative types keep it messy / Surely Jackson Pollock had some paint stains on his couch / Not to mention the stuff between his teeth / And the turpentine smell stuck in his sheets. 

- Georgia Maq, "Tropical Lush Ice" / "10 Drunk Cigarettes"  (Maq, Feb 13)

We are strong believers that you can frequently judge an artist by the company they keep on the road. Australia's Georgia Maq will join John Moreland for several dates beginning in August. The onetime front person for Camp Cope shared these singles in February, as well as a fine EP last September, God's Favourite. Maq's songs tread the adult pop side of the indie folk equation, a balance that tips rootsward in a live setting. With Ben Lee, she toured as The Two Most Annoying People You Love.

- Jackie West, Silent Century  (Ruination, Feb 27)

The songs from Jackie West's sophomore LP are subtle and smart, steadily sinking their way into our awareness rather than insisting upon access. Perhaps that's why it took us so long to fall in line. Like Rosali, songs like "Overlooking Glass" and "These Are Not Sweet Girls" are delivered in cool, torchy confidence, with organic accompaniment that won't overreach. While West's project occasionally deals in more jagged arrangements, the record typically dwells in exquisitely ethereal moments. Please stay for the ten-minute largely spoken closer, "Offer". 

- i26connector, i26 connector  (Haw Creek, Mar 11)

We're all here for the current emo Southern rock moment. That's how this proggy Asheville act labels its sound, as likely to build on gravely electric guitar as evocative strings (and possibly gutteral vocals). The work of frontguy Caelan Burris will appeal to many who pray for us to feature something heavier, louder, maybe capable of summoning the neighbors. "Spirit Manger" sounds all Fust-like until just past the two-minute mark when the mosh pit opens for business. 

- Casual Technicians, Well Once There Was a King  (Historic New Jersey, May 15)

We're told this marks the third full-length album from the Oregon outfit, which makes us wonder if we're really spending our music discovery time wisely enough. The trio embrace a wild variety of sound across this twenty-four track sampler, though most of it can be shoehorned into a lo-fi indie-folk box. But save room for Magnetic Fields-like pop ("This Manic State"), old-weird string band ("Heathen Ways") and whatever's happening on "What Is My Deal". 

- Huntress & the Holder Of Hands, Babylon  (Swain, Jun 5)

We first encountered MorganEve Swain as one-half of Brown Bird with her late husband Dave Lamb, then as a more recent member of Devil Makes Three. Under the Huntress moniker, Swain's songs check a similar gothic box as some of David Eugene Edwards' stuff with Sixteen Horsepower. The music spirals and trudges behind strings and almost tribal percussion, with the singer and her accompanists rarely far from minor key reckoning. Babylon isn't easy listening, and it won't sound great blowing from your dusty truck windows, but it's impressive in its ambition and originality. 

- Jack M Senff & Heartland Mission, Grace & Sorrow  (Skeletal Lightning, Jun 26)

Like many others, Senff came to his pop-inflected folk via a youthful dabbling in noisy diy punk. His fifth collection with Heartland Mission was tracked in the loft space of a family cottage on Mullet Lake outside Cheboygan, Michigan. And it sounds just like that, very likably understated. Senff and his cohort deploy banjo, harmonica, and a wall full of other things with strings on this set refreshingly devoid of pretense: I'll meet you for a coffee in the afternoon / Can someone borrow me a dollar. 

^ Mary In the Junkyard, Role Model Hermit  (AMF, Jul 3)

This British trio sounds like the audio version of an old weird fable retold by Edward Gorey or Maurice Sendak. There are bits on their debut LP that recall Big Thief, while others might bring Bjork to mind, owing to the wonderfully unkiltered vocals of Clari Freeman-Taylor. "Blood" and "Thou Shalt Sprout" trip along on a deep groove of percussion, while "Mouse" is a genuinely odd fever dream, this side of gorgeous. You might worry about us if we told you it's what we've been listening to more than anything else this week ...

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ROUTES-cast July 5, 2026

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

July 5, 2026

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

We find music that matters even in these music-desert weeks that seemingly offer so little by way of new stuff. We're still not certain what we'll do for Tuesday's post, but we'll figure something. Prob'ly. This week brings an unexpected debut (D) from Margo Price, as well as debuts from Angela Autumn's just-announced Believer, JP Harris, Yawpers, and several more. We've also found room for a couple things we had to trim down from last week's Episode. Please set them on repeat as your soundtrack for scrubbing down the backyard grill. Or what have you. 

ROUTES-cast July 5, 2026

^ Nixon Boyd, "How I Know I'm Home" Every Time We Turn a Corner  (Royal Mountain, 26)

- Michigander, "Taxi" Over Before You Know It  (Totally Normal, Jun 30)  D

- Margaret Glaspy, "That Rose" I'm Both  (ATO, Aug 7)

- Angus & Julia Stone, "Monroe" Karaoke Bar  (Virgin, Sep 4)

- American Aquarium, "Dollar General" New Ways To Lose  (Losing Side, 26)

- Son Volt, "If I Could" single  (Transmit Sound, 26)  D

- Mara Connor, "Joe" single  (Side Hustle, 26)  D

- Elizabeth Moen, "Renaissance Man" single  (Moen, 26)  D

- Briscoe, "Heart Of Texas" single  (Briscoe, 26)  D

- Margo Price, "Can't Stand Still" Days Of Unrest  (Loma Vista, 26)  D

- Band Of Heathens, "Strangers Here" single  (BoH, 26)  D

- Angela Autumn, "Mountain Stream" Believer  (Gar Hole, Sep 11)  D

- Charley Crockett, "Image Of a Woman" Clovis  (Atlantic Outpost, 26)  

- Silverada, "Drag" Living Proof  (Edgewater, Aug 7)

- Hannah Juanita, "I'm Not Drunk" Magnolia Sessions  (Anti Corp, 26)

- JP Harris, "Say Darling Say" Shaving a Dead Man  (Bloodshot, Oct 23)  D

- Otis Gibbs, "Darker Side Of Me" single  (Wanamaker, 26)

- Ransom Brothers, "I've Been Known" single  (Ransom, 26)

- Billy Strings, "Burn the Other End" So Much For Goodbyes  (Reprise, Aug 28)  D

- Pieta Brown, "Love Letters" Dreamin' Of  (Righteous Babe, Aug 20)

- Jeffrey Silverstein, "Out Of Tune (ft Devendra Banhart)" Doggone  (Full Time Hobby, Oct 23)  D

- Alex Dupree, "You're a Dog Don't Talk To Me" Talking To the Dog  (Scissor Tail, Aug 14)  

- Little Gold, "Public Dog" Public Dog  (Tall Texan, Jul 24)  D

- Sadurn, "Whole Thing" The Underworld  (Run For Cover, Oct 16)  D

- Yawpers, "Starting Over" single  (DTTW, 26)  D

- Sunken Man, "Fall For It Again" Sunken Man  (Single Lock, Sep 25)  D

- Pokey LaFarge, "The Thing" Rent Money  (ONErpm, Sep 10)

- Low Cut Connie, "Let Me Speak To Bobby" Livin' In the USA  (Contender, 26)

- Mary In the Junkyard, "Blood" Role Model Hermit  (AMF, 26)  D

- Slow Accordion, "Castle" Slow Accordion  (Royal Potato Family, Jul 17)

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WHAT's SO GREAT ABOUT the FiRST HALF of THiS YEAR?!!

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

July 3, 2026

Scott Foley, purveyor of independence 

Welcome to this special Heat Dome Edition of WSGATW?!! In recognition of the fact that we've just passed the halfway point through 2026, and in the spirit of independence, we're dedicating the day to our favorite records of the year to date. As you might expect, our list embraces a diversity of sounds, from folk and americana to several things that would be preceded with indie-this or alt-that. We list these in order of appearance, onaccountof we don't want to give any spoilers to our end-of-year lists. That said, we're especially partial to Ratboys, Johnny Blue Skies, Brown Horse, Thomas Dollbaum, and Zoh Amba. But don't hold us to that. A lot can happen in six months. 

WHAT's SO GREAT ABOUT the FiRST HALF of THiS YEAR?!!

- Courtney Marie Andrews, Valentine  (Loose Future, Jan 16)

- Sophie Gault, Unhinged  (Torrez, Jan 23)

- Ratboys, Singin' To An Empty Chair  (New West, Feb 6)

- Twisted Teens, Blame the Clown  (Jazz Life, Feb 13)

- Bill Callahan, My Days Of 58  (Drag City, Feb 27)

- Natalie Jane Hill, Hopeful Woman  (Dear Life, Mar 6)

- Deloyd Elze, Nellene EP  (Concord, Mar 6)

- Morgan Nagler, I've Got Nothing To Lose and I'm Losing It  (Little Operation, Mar 13)

- Cat Clyde, Mud Blood Bone  (Concord, Mar 13)

- Johnny Blue Skies, Mutiny After Midnight  (Atlantic Outpost, Mar 13)

- Charlotte Cornfield, Hurts Like Hell  (Merge, Mar 27)

- Sluice, Companion  (Mtn Laurel, Mar 27)

- Droptines, Drought Flower  (Big Loud Texas, Apr 3)

- Brown Horse, Total Dive  (Loose, Apr 10)

- Kiki Cavazos, Goodbye Blues  (Jalopy, Apr 24)

- Bobby Dove, Fortune Teller  (New Motor, Apr 24)

- Hiss Golden Messenger, I'm People  (Chrysalis, May 1)

- Kevin Morby, Little Wide Open  (Dead Oceans, May 15)

- Shakey Graves, Fondness Etc  (Dualtone, May 15)

- Jobi Riccio, Face the Feeling  (Yep Roc, May 15)

- Thomas Dollbaum, Birds Of Paradise  (Dear Life, May 22)

- Alela Diane, Who's Keeping Time  (Fluff & Gravy, May 22)

- Simon Joyner, Tough Love  (Grapefruit, May 22)

- Zoh Amba, Eyes Full  (Matador, Jun 5)

- Bella White, A Sign In the Weather  (Rounder, Jun 5)

- Alex Amen, Sun Of Amen  (ATO, Jun 12)

- Styrofoam Winos, Any River  (Dear Life, Jun 19)

- American Aquarium, New Ways To Lose  (Losing Side, Jun 26)

- River Shook, River Shook   (Blackberry River, Jun 26)

- Andrew Sa, American Rough  (Bloodshot, Jun 26)

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Looking to the horizons a bit, here are the five (5) releases to which we're most looking forward in the days, weeks, months to come:

Waylon Payne, Wayward  (Big Loud Texas, Jul 16)

Lambchop, Punching the Clown  (Merge, Aug 21)

Dogwood Tales, Every Star In Rockingham County  (Born Losers, Aug 28)

Angela Autumn, Believer  (Gar Hole, Sep 11)

Lily Seabird, Lightspheres On Their Way  (Lame-O, Oct 2)

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A ROUTES & BRANCHES GUiDE to FEEDiNG YOUR MONSTER (July 2, 2026)

A ROUTES & BRANCHES GUiDE to FEEDiNG YOUR MONSTER

good news about good noise

July 2, 2026

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster is our darling album release calendar. Since our last missive, Charlie Crockett has found a home for his wayward Clovis LP, being released by Atlantic Outpost on Friday. Billy Strings, savior of all things with strings, has set August 28 for the unveiling of So Much For Goodbyes (Reprise). We've been eagerly awaiting an announcement from Angela Autumn regarding her second full-length. The increasingly busy Gar Hole label will deliver Believer come September 11. Folk music savant Rhiannon Giddens calls her September 18 project Hope Is the Things With Feathers (Nonesuch). And, in an entirely different spirit, JP Harris' October 23 record is called Shaving a Dead Man (Bloodshot). 

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^ Adam Weiner is Low Cut Connie. His Livin' In the USA hits virtual shelves this week. Twangville asks the questions we've all wanted to ask, about the Gherkins, "Lover, Discover Me" and his touring vehicle. 

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We'll go on record saying that Bright Eyes is one of our favorite live bands. Cardinal Sessions has made a fantastic 2025 set available, set to tape in Berlin. While Conor Oberst can be unpredictable, here he is unpredictably good. 

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Among the year's finest developments is the recent news that Wilco and friends gathered to perform songs from the Mermaid Avenue albums at their Solid Sound set in NYC. Joining them on stage was a plethora of notoriety including Natalie Merchant, Sally Timms, Billy Bragg, and more. Brooklyn Vegan has pics and vids. 

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Kevin Morby's new I Ride Passenger video series is the anti-Carpool Karaoke. For his first episode, he eats ice cream with Katie Crutchfield, discusses album titles, and their cool situation (ie relationship). Also, they're apparently expecting, preparing to bring an indie-folk prince into the world!

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What better way to celebrate 250 years of (relative) independence! Otis Gibbs is streaming, A Love Letter To Handsome John,  his documentary about Todd Snider for free on July 4. The songwriter/filmmaker guarantees, 99.9% of the world will absolutely hate this film. 

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Been way too long since we've heard from Emmylou Harris. She's apparently been wandering the library at Nonesuch Records, and spends seven minutes reflecting upon her treasures. Spoiler: she shares our fondness for Low Anthem's debut LP. 

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It's not often we're able to connect you to PBS News. That changes today! The site interviews Willy Vlautin about his books and music with Richmond Fontaine and the Delines. He's one of the best: I feel like got invited to a party that I wasn't supposed to get invited to. 

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Courtney Barnett surprised us with March's Creature Of Habit, a collection that portrays the Australian artist as a still-evolving songwriter and vocalist. Barnett uploaded a really good live set, recorded with just a bassist and drummer at Levon Helm Studios. 

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Beth Orton tells Hearing Things about her Judds phase, wanting to be a criminologist, and a brief encounter with Kate Bush. There are also some nice videos of Orton performing songs from her Ground Above gem. 

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LOOKBACK MACHiNE: Avett Brothers

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

July 1, 2026

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

There was a time when the Avett Brothers were volatile. Their home-brewed, approximate harmonies and walloped instruments were fresh and exciting, albeit this side of amateurish. Brothers Seth and Scott and third wheel Bob Crawford wore that lack of polish as a badge on their off-the-rails raves as well as their hyper-earnest ballads. The formula worked to garner the Avetts a staunch live following, and eventually a deal with a larger label and a world-class producer. 

This brings us up to 2009 and their Rick Rubin-produced I and Love and You. We followed the Avett Brothers onto The Carpenter and Magpie and the Dandelion and even into True Sadness, though their mainstream popularity and increasing polish tempered our enthusiasm. There's absolutely nothing wrong with artistic maturity, and domestic stability is something we'd wish on any worthy performer. As we've expressed on a regular basis, that early rough garage electricity is simply impossible to maintain as we become more seasoned performers. 

Heck, we'll even forgive the Avetts their ill-fated Broadway musical. Their left-field collaboration with Mike Patton (AVTT/PTTN) served to remind us that Seth and Scott remain open to novelty like we like, even if we didn't strongly represent the project here at R&B HQ. Returning to Four Thieves and Emotionalism in compiling our Lookback list rekindled some of that early enthusiasm and jogged our memory of some of the brothers' genuinely good stuff. We didn't include anything from their four live packages, but recommend them as documents of their fabled stage show. 

AVETT BROTHERS: thirty favorites

- "Pretty Girl From Matthews" Country Was (2002)

- "November Blue"

- "Traveling Song" A Carolina Jubilee (2003)

- "At the Beach" Mignonette (2004)

- "Swept Away" 

- "Salvation Song" 

- "Talk On Indolence" Four Thieves Gone - the Robbinsville Sessions (2006)

- "Colorshow" 

- "Dancing Daze" 

- "When I Drink" The Gleam EP (2006)

- "Die Die Die" Emotionalism (2007)

- "Paranoia In B Major"

- "Weight Of Lies" 

- "Ballad Of Love and Hate" 

- "I Would Be Sad" 

- "Murder In the City" Second Gleam EP (2008)

- "I and Love and You" I and Love and You (2009)

- "Head Full Of Doubt/Road Full Of Promise"

- "Kick Drum Heart" 

- "Laundry Room" 

- "Live and Die" The Carpenter (2012)

- "February Seven"

- "Open Ended Life" Magpie and the Dandelion (2013)

- "No Hard Feelings" True Sadness (2016)

- "True Sadness"

- "I Wish I Was"

- "Tell the Truth" Closer Than Together (2019)

- "Victory" Third Gleam EP (2020)

- "Love Of a Girl" Avett Brothers (2024)

- "Eternal Love" AVTT/PTTN (2025)

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IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK: Andrew Sa, American Rough (Bloodshot, Jun 26)

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

June 30, 2026

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

Fact is, this week we had something nearly complete in praise of River Shook's debut solo record, something we'll still strongly recommend. But we've also been spending time with an artist who has shared a stage with Shook recently, Andrew Sa. Each time we returned American Rough to the turntable our appreciation grew, until this morning we decided to fully cast our lot with Sa rather than Shook. 

This is where that IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK becomes problematic. On a week when we're also looking at new projects from American Aquarium and Keenan O'Meara (not to mention Beth Orton), we fully suggest you listen to MORE THAN ONE RECORD ...

American Rough is co-produced with HC McEntire and Missy Thangs, working with Andrew Sa to walk a line between novelty throwback and genuine original. With a voice that has been compared to Roy Orbison and Raul Malo, the challenge is to conjure an arrangement that doesn't cloak Sa's songs in nostalgia. Fact is, songs like "Follow" and "Lavender Cowboy" are perfectly beautiful. The former boasts an immediately familiar snare pattern with lovely strings, while the latter even directly sites "Angel Band" even as it draws an alluring picture of queer attraction. In these more trad settings, Sa's voice shines like a more polished Jimmie Dale Gilmore. 

The album's songs are best honored, however, and Sa's possible future is most readily visible, as sounds and sonic ideas are folded into the mix. The reedy sax on "Your Whisper" suggests a jazz ballad sensibility, joined by swarming strings adding just a touch of mystery. Written with Liam Kazar, "Under You" layers harmony vocals as pedal steel echoes from wall to wall: Let me stay a nickel in your fountain. 

Where Orville Peck is brawny, Andrew Sa brings a bruised spirit to his music and delivery. "Gorgeous Things" blooms with terrific arrangement choices, from woozy violin to low-tuned electric guitar: You've got a pair of little brown eyes / Hanging on you tonight. American Rough can't help but be hopelessly romantic, it's just in the Chicago songwriter's nature: On every chiseled face out there / I picture your facial hair. Cue the horn section, this side of vampy. 

River Shook's self-titled record succeeds in acknowledging what we already know. In Andrew Sa, however, we revel in the spirit of music discovery. An acknowledged fan of artists like Rufus Wainwright and kd lang (in addition to Patsy Cline, natch), Sa's future might see him wisely expand his music reach beyond the baseline he establishes on American Rough. On "Where It Lands", with collaborators McEntire and Rosali, Sa delivers the project's most promising passage. Sounding not unlike ANOHNI in a tamer moment, the singer croons atop a digital murmur: The eye can wander forever / Isn't love where it lands. 

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