LOOKBACK MACHiNE - HiSS GOLDEN MESSENGER

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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

November 6, 2024

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

Few artists have so firmly hit the proverbial sweet spot for our kind of music. MC Taylor and Hiss Golden Messenger have messed around in the mystic, sung to the sweet soul, and courted the muse, speaking to the range and depth of americana music. We could easily have incorporated some of Taylor's work with Scott Hirsch in Court and Spark as well. From that early point, Taylor's trajectory has followed a satisfyingly smooth evolution from old weird folk into Southern soul, embracing gospel and roots rock (with a seasonal album thrown in for good measure - Taylor called it a sort of cry from the depths of somewhere disguised as a holiday record). A degreed folklorist, and longtime North Carolina resident, he takes a very personal but literate approach in presenting the music of the South. Taylor summed it all up with the title of HGM's lovely box set of  the remastered early albums: Devotion - Songs About Rivers & Spirits & Children. In a worthy New Yorker profile from back in 2016, the songwriter put a very appropriate spin to his work:

As a white man, I am among those most protected from what Donald Trump threatens. But I align with those on the margins - people of color, the LGBT community, people who cannot speak as loudly. I sing for my kids, who have no say in what is happening to our country right now, but will inherit a world that is in danger of being badly maimed by current events. I am taking my work very seriously.

HiSS GOLDEN MESSENGER: thirty favorites

- "O Nathaniel" Country Hai East Cotton  (Heaven & Earth, May 09)

- "Row" Country Hai East Cotton

- "O Little Light" Bad Debt  (Blackmaps, Nov 10)

- "Blue Country Mystic" Poor Moon  (Paradise Of Bachelors, Apr 12)

- "Call Him Daylight" Poor Moon

- "A Working Man Can't Make It No Way" Poor Moon

- "Red Rose Nantahala" Haw  (Paradise Of Bachelors, Apr 13)

- "I've Got a Name For the Newborn Child" Haw

- "Sweet As John Hurt" Haw

- "Brother Do You Know the Road" single  (Merge, May 14)

- "Mahogany Dread" Lateness Of Dancers  (Merge, Sep 14)

- "I'm a Raven (Shake Children)" Lateness Of Dancers

- "Southern Grammar" Lateness Of Dancers

- "Biloxi" Heart Like a Levee/Vestapol  (Merge, Oct 16)

- "Heart Like a Levee" Heart Like a Levee/Vestapol

- "Cracked Windshield" Heart Like a Levee/Vestapol

- "Standing In the Doorway" single  (Merge, Jun 17)

- "Jenny Of the Roses" Hallelujah Anyway  (Merge, Sep 17)

- "Domino (Time Will Tell)" Hallelujah Anyway

- "Rock Holy" Virgo Fool  (Merge, Nov 18)

- "Hard Promises" Virgo Fool 

- "I Need a Teacher" Terms Of Surrender  (Merge, Sep 19)

- "Terms Of Surrender" Terms Of Surrender

- "Hardlytown" Quietly Blowing It  (Merge, Jun 21)

- "Sanctuary" Quietly Blowing It 

- "Grace" O Come All Ye Faithful  (Merge, Oct 21)

- "As Long As I Can See the Light" O Come All Ye Faithful

- "20 Years and a Nickel" Jump For Joy  (Merge, Aug 23)

- "Nu-Grape" Jump For Joy 

- "California King" Jump For Joy

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ANDREW BRYANT - LOOSA SCHOONA

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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

November 5, 2024

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

The untimely death of Jason Molina in 2013 left an artistic void. While names like Will Johnson, Justin Vernon, and the late David Berman have claimed him as an inspiration, nothing scratches the same itches or wanders the same moon haunted landscapes as Molina, Songs:Ohio, or Magnolia Electric Co. Those yearning for artistic equivalents might want to browse the recent catalog of Andrew Bryant. This isn't to say that the Mississippi founder of the Water Liars picked up what Molina left unfinished. Rather, Bryant's recent solo albums work with a similar palette of melancholy, brooding, and haunting. 

Last week Bryant dropped Loosa Schoona, a project that arrived without fanfare or advance notice. It follows his April Loose Collars project with Gunshy vocalist Matt Arbogast, and last November's career high-water mark, Prodigal. That collection marked a change in Andrew Bryant's approach, finding him working alongside producer Bruce Watson, and backed by an exceptional band featuring Will Sexton, Rick Steff, Alex Greene, Mark Edgar Stuart, and Will McCarley. Prodigal was also written from a perspective of Bryant's Mississippi home, raising questions of identity, belonging, and place. 

Those themes carry into Loosa Schoona, even as Bryant has returned to his practice of making his music alone, writing and producing and playing everything with the exception of Kell Kellum's pedal steel, Alex Greene's keyboards, and strings from Krista and Elen Wroten. The new songs range from heavy to acoustic, from hopeful to haunted. All arrive with a whiff of sawdust and machine oil, as witnessed through the bleary eyes of the working man.

Andrew Bryant adds a rare country cast to "At the Sawmill Again", an acoustic number highlighted by Kellum's pedal steel. The grainy track is a blue collar ode, the narrator contemplating: Ain't there more to life than just carving up trees with a blade. "Let the Green Grass Grow" adds fiddle and piano to Bryant's layered vocal: When you're left behind with heartache / And sawdust on your heels / And your mind can't seem to let things go / That's how you know you're human / You're not just a machine made to cut down what nature made to grow. 

Bryant's songs also focus on domestic matters. "Around the Corner" is a blues rocker that betrays a wry sense of humor. The singer slips into a drawled recitation: When you come home from a hard day's work / And need someone to rub your feet / I'll be there ... But if you're coming home and fussing because the dishes are in the sink / And the laundry needs folding / And the grass needs mowing / And we're running out of money in the bank again / And you've just had about enough of me playing this fucking guitar all day / Then I might not be here when you get home. The narrator reassures his wife who has awoken from a nightmare on "Silent Killer", a simple acoustic ballad delivered with a sweet vocal and with tongue a bit in cheek: Time is the silent killer / But love brings us life eternal / Or something like that, Bryant sings. And later: I'll drive you to the big store / I'll cash my check and keep it / We won't buy nothing we need / Cigarettes and beer and coffee.

But Andrew Bryant's music is more often heavy and overcast, layered with thick guitar and weighty drums, such as on "Run Fox Run". "Tributary Dreams" echoes the working class theme, a terrifically noisy cut adding organ and the singer's straining voice: I'm just a constant stranger full of tributary dreams / Stuck in a river that leads nowhere ... I want to fly. Here, Bryant rivals Isbell or Will Johnson, capable of writing about blue collar realities without describing unrealistic heroes or hopeless down-and-outers. 

Loosa Schoona's noise continues with a number of songs about hauntings. "Old White Moon" raises a fog of growling guitars and an unsteady organ, Bryant pleading for guidance: Light up the night / Show me what to do. Fingerpicked acoustic guitar and skittering snare play alongside banjo and harmonica on the ominous "Ghost Of Howlin' Wolf". And above an ambience of strings, "Air Mount" questions: Does what lives out in the woods / Only live inside our minds. It's on these louder, more haunted numbers that Bryant seems a likely inheritor of Jason Molina's spirit, laboring amidst twilight's uncertainty, barely staying afloat in a sea of noise. 

Our internet research tells us that Loosa Schoona is a vernacular name for Mississippi's Skuna River, one of a handful of geographical coordinates on Andrew Bryant's new album. One expects we'll be able to learn more about the story behind the project as/if the songwriter grants interviews. Where Prodigal succeeded by gathering a complement of masterful players, Bryant's return to true solo work allows him to dig even deeper into his surroundings, unearthing true stories of the people and places that surround him. Applying what he's taken from his work with Bruce Watson et al., Bryant seems even more capable of driving his music to new places. 

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TRAiPSiNG THRU the AiSLES: add these to your basket (November 4, 2024)

TRAiPSiNG THRU the AiSLES: add these to your basket

November 4, 2024

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

Jeremie Albino, Our Time In the Sun  (Easy Eye Sound, November 1)

It's how fledgling artists learn their craft, by listening to, then emulating the greats. Stealing what you like, then making it your own. Jeremie Albino's fourth LP is the sound of an outfit getting it right. It's the story of a onetime Toronto busker, given the lifetime opportunity to record with a masterful backing band. Black Keys guitarist, singer, and producer Dan Auerbach came across Albino's Instagram and arranged for a meeting. His Easy Eye Sound has been the label home for a number of such showcases, including work with Early James, Britti, and Hermanos Gutierrez, each of which Auerbach has treated to a recording facility and a crack studio band that has raised their sound to new heights. On Our Time In the Sun, that band includes Heliocentrics drummer Malcolm Catto, keyboardist Mike Rojas, and guitarists (Little) Barrie Cadogan, Tommy Brenneck, and Tom Bukovac, laying down a timeless groove upon which the singer casts his powerful throwback vocals. The results mine expressions of classic country, early rock 'n soul, and r&b. Albino and Auerbach start simmering with the horns and gospel chorus of  "I Don't Mind Waiting". "Baby Ain't It Cold Outside" creates a huge Muscle Shoals racket, raising the song into the rafters, from an opening drum tumble to its victorious chorus. Auerbach's production is remarkably consistent from album-to-album, from one artist to the next. On Our Time, the bass and drums carry the day, most notably on the swampy "Dinner Bell": Somebody lied / When they told you / You could keep the devil satisfied. Primal guitar and dense organ add to one of the looser, uninhibited tracks. Both "Rolling Down the 405" and "Struggle With the Bottle" emphasize the country side of Albino's country-soul equation, also creating sonic space to showcase his voice. Both youthful and ages old, Albino's delivery has been his distinct calling card since his 2019 debut, but it sounds bigger and more confident than before. Songs are cowritten with Albino and Auerbach, with Pat McLaughlin and a couple other veteran writers at the table as well. Most tracks wear their influences proudly, time-stamped in a similar manner as Nathaniel Rateliff or St Paul & the Broken Bones. Dan Auerbach hasn't so much changed Jeremie Albino's sound, but with his superb session players he has coaxed forward the artist's formidable talents. 

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Sam Blasucci, Real Life Thing  (Innovative Leisure, November 1)

Sam Blasucci has performed with Clay Finch in the California folk-rock duo Mapache, releasing a handful of very good, easygoing records. One was a concept album about a dog's trip to the beach. Blasucci's 2023 solo debut, Off My Stars, provided a nice glimpse beyond his duo work, incorporating pop and jazz elements for a more extroverted sound. Real Life Thing is delivered hot on the heels of that debut, and largely builds on the artistic trends Blasucci established there, while also leaning into his inherent theatricality. Coproduced with Johnny Payne (who served the same role on the first solo LP), Real Life Thing dwells upon issues of gender expression and the manner in which we choose to show ourselves. On "Death", Blasucci challenges the listener: Look at how we misuse / All our sexuality / You look like death, I know / And death has never looked so good to me. The upbeat track rides on a piano which Blasucci inherited from the parents of his Mapache bandmate, and upon which the artist has written much of his new collection. "No Magic" recalls Todd Rundgren's at first listen, an artist whose inspiration can be heard throughout the session. Blasucci handles most of the instrumentation on his songs, with the exception of some percussion and the woodwinds of Randal Fisher, whose sax introduces the Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks-esque "Flower". Like Father John Misty, there is a late-night lounge sensibility to these songs, from the bass pulse and swirling intro of "Howl At the Moon" to Fisher's sighing sax on "Tea & Pixies". But there is too much substance to Blasucci's work to write him off as a poseur. Many of the album's imagistic lyrics were initially published as poetry prior to being set to much. On "Tea & Pixies", he sings, I feel you touching me everywhere / Just like rain soaked clothes. The theme of authenticity rings through "Behind Closed Eyes", featuring Randal Fisher's flue and Blasucci's electric strum: Too many people holding back / The way they really feel inside. With its upbeat claps and busy tropical interlude, "Witching Hour" recalls Talking Heads: In my witching hour / In my human nature / I am flexible. Real Life Thing was composed as part of a conceptual concert film, with each individual piece portrayed in costume and setting. While Sam Blasucci maintains the breezy spirit of his earlier folk-rock songs, his new project presents him in a fuller, more versatile light. 

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ROUTES-cast November 3, 2024

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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

November 3, 2024

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

ROUTES-cast November 3, 2024

- Them Coulee Boys, "I Am Not Sad" No Fun In the Chrysalis  (Some Fun, Feb 28)  D

- Fruition, "Whole World Of Trouble" single  (Fruition, 24)  D

- Johnny Delaware, "Mexico City Blues" Para Llevar  (Normaltown, 24)

- Elvis Costello, "Scarlet Tide (Live) (ft Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings)" King Of America & Other Realms  (Universal 24)

- Caroline Spence, "Confront It" single  (Spence, 24)  D

- Jeremie Albino, "Struggling With the Bottle" Our Time In the Sun  (Concord, 24)

- Devil Makes Three, "Spirits" Spirits  (New West, Feb 28)  D

- Lucinda Williams, "Something" Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road  (Hwy 20, Dec 6)

- Hank Dogs, "Fiveways" Fiveways  (Scratchy, 24)  D

- Sean McConnell, "Demolition Day" Skin  (Silent Desert, Feb 24)

- Flatland Cavalry, "Lubbock" Flatland Forever  (Interscope, Nov 8)

- Loose Cattle, "Cheneyville" Someone's Monster  (Single Lock, 24)

- HORSEBATH, "In the Shade" Another Farewell  (Strolling Bones, Feb 7)  D

- Good Looks, "Chase Your Demons Out" single  (Keeled Scales, 24)

^ Andrew Bryant, "At the Sawmill Again" Loosa Schoona  (Sentimental Noises, 24)  D

- Charlie Kaplan, "Mescarole" Eternal Repeater  (Glamour Gowns, 24)  D

- Silverlites, "Dark and Magic Sky" Silverlites  (Sunyata, Nov 15)

- Low Cut Connie, "Beverly (live)" Connie Live  (Contender, 24)

- Cold Specks, "Wandering In the Wild" single  (Mute, 24)  D

- Bailey Bigger, "Dancing With the Devil" Resurrection Fern  (Madjack, 24)

- Haley Heynderickx, "Mouth Of a Flower" Seed Of a Seed  (Mama Bird, 24)

- Laura Marling, "Your Girl" Patterns In Repeat  (Partisan, 24)

- Jesse Welles, "Have You Ever Seen the Rain (ft Mt Joy)" single  (Welles, 24)  D

- Palmyra, "Floats Away" Surprise No 1 EP  (Oh Boy, 24)

- Jennifer Castle, "Full Moon In Leo" Camelot  (Paradise Of Bachelors, 24)

- Cameron Winter, "Take It With You" single  (Partisan, 24)

- Sam Blasucci, "Tea & Pixies" Real Life Thing  (Innovative Leisure, 24)

- Nadia Reid, "Baby Bright" Enter Now Brightness  (Chrysalis, Feb 7)  D

- Sean Barna, "Wallflower (ft Mirah)" Internal Trembling EP  (Kill Rock Stars, Nov 22)  D

- Sam Amidon, "On My Journey Home" Salt River  (River Lea, Jan 24)  D

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WHAT's SO GREAT ABOUT THiS WEEK?!! (November 1, 2024)

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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

November 1, 2024

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

Oh the days dwindle down to a precious few / September, November ... Though Kurt Weil left October from his lyric (purposefully? out of spite?), he was certainly alive to enjoy the gift that is daylight savings. Here at R&B HQ, we're observing the disappearance of the sun by planning our traditional year-end lists. Since our last November 1, we've expanded our blogging horizons from just one Episode per week to our current, spastic daily publication. Since the idea of new music hibernates with the sun, our plan is to temporarily repurpose Fridays for those end-of-year accounting functions. Following are the dates:

Nov 29: Covers Covers Covers

Dec 6: State Of Americana

Dec 13: Favorite Songs

Dec 20: Christmas Christmas

Dec 27: Favorite Albums

Jan 3: Quarter Century

Please add these to your Holly Hobbie wall calendar (in erasable pen, since they're subject to change on a whim). 

But let's turn our attention to:

WHAT's SO GREAT ABOUT THiS WEEK?!!

Cold Specks, "Wandering In the Wild" single  (Mute, Oct 30)

It seems we might be in for a new Cold Specks record. The Canadian songwriter's second recent single focuses on a stay in a psychiatric hospital prior to a bipolar diagnosis: What does it mean to be at peace. Co-written with Chantal Kreviazuk, "Wandering" is a tentative piano ballad, opening to strings and horns as the song unspools. Add this and Cold Specks' July single, "How It Feels" to your so-melancholy-it-feels-good Fall playlist. 

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Devil Makes Three, "Spirits" Spirits  (New West, Feb 28)

Pete Bernhard and company preceded the announcement of their February full-length by sharing a couple cover songs. Turns out those were standalones, as their forthcoming record features all new original songs. Devil Makes Three speak about returning to their stripped-back punk/blues/country roots on the new set, produced by Ted Hutt: Too many spirits in the bottle / All I do is speak with the dead. The sessions also mark the replacement of bass and vocalist Lucia Turino with former Brown Bird member MorganEve Swain, who began touring with the band a couple years ago. 

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Sean Barna, "Wallflower (ft Mirah)" Internal Trembling EP  (Kill Rock Stars, Nov 22)

Barna is following his album about queer nightlife (you might need "Disco Nap") with an EP inspired by the wide vistas of remote Western Colorado. The New York singer-songwriter is joined on the beautiful "Wallflower" by touring partner Mirah and by the acoustic ensemble Hawktail: Paul Kowert, Brittany Haas, and Jordan Tice. Barna sings the names of five people killed at a gay bar in Colorado Springs in 2022. 

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Them Coulee Boys, "I Am Not Sad" No Fun In the Chrysalis  (Some Fun, Feb 28)

Wisconsin's TCB are readying their February full-length, introduced with this rousing electro-acoustic track dedicated to a frank and open approach to talking about our mental health: I am not sad anymore / At least not today. Per the band's Soren Staff: It's a celebration of happiness in the moment, while acknowledging that there's times when it's harder. 

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Jesse Welles, "Have You Ever Seen the Rain (ft Matt Quinn)" single  (Welles, Oct 29)

It's very true that the world doesn't need another Creedence Clearwater Revival cover song. And we've given throwback singer-songwriter Jesse Welles his share of time on our playlists for his tireless 2024 stream of singles. But Welles' CCR cover hits different, showing him in a great light as a singer, and Mt Joy's Matt Quinn sounds terrific as well on this homey porch take. John Fogerty doesn't need any more of our dollars, but we'll let it pass this once. 

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A ROUTES & BRANCHES GUiDE to FEEDiNG YOUR MONSTER (October 31, 2024)

A ROUTES & BRANCHES GUiDE to FEEDiNG YOUR MONSTER

good news about good noise

October 31, 2024

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

Boo.

Co-hosted by singer-songwriter Michaela Anne, The Other 22 Hours podcast talks to artists about how they structure their offstage time. John Moreland is featured on the most recent edition. 

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We're looking forward to the December release of White Denim's 12 album. Audio Fuzz stirs the anticipation with an interview of frontguy James Petralli. 

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R&B celebrated Jeffrey Foucault's recent Universal Fire LP with a recent review. Backstage Sonoma catches up with the songwriter for a chat and a couple live cuts. 

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Bluegrass Situation presents a summit between songwriters Chuck Prophet and Mark Erelli. 

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Saving Country Music shared a tremendous update from Joshua Ray Walker with regard to his recent cancer prognosis.   

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Brendan Greaves from Paradise Of Bachelors has published a piece with Yale Review remembering a 1994 art installation from singer/artist Terry Allen at the Texas-Mexico border. 

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For our money, Ron Sexsmith is one of the great pop songwriters of his generation. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Americana UK shares an appreciation and news of forthcoming music. 

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We hadn't heard of the Last Donut Of the Night newsletter before tripping across their interview with Laura Marling, addressing her recent Patterns In Repeat CD. 

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Thee Sacred Souls demonstrate their awesomely wide-reaching music appreciation on the most recent edition of Amoeba's What's In My Bag series. 

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Noeline Hofmann's Purple Gas EP could be one of the year's strongest debuts. Bluegrass Situation paid the Canadian songwriter a quick visit for their  5+5 series. 

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LOOKBACK MACHiNE: TODD SNiDER

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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

October 30, 2024

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

Not one to let Taylor Swift hoard all the attention, Todd Snider has spent the last year recording and releasing Purple Versions of his records, live re-recordings of his albums that also include his stories and introductions that give some background to each song. In celebration of his thirtieth anniversary, the songwriter has also announced a limited edition box set, Best Of All My Songs, to be released December 13 on his Aimless Records. 

For this Episode of our Lookback Machine, where we select our thirty (30) favorite songs from a seminal artist's catalog, we're going to suggest our own list, which will surely diverge from Snider's own. It must be said that we're not great fans of novelty songs, several of which stand as the songwriter's most popular work. But in poring back over Snider's oeuvre, we were surprised with what a very good collection we've been able to assemble. 

We were also expecting to struggle to mine songs from Snider's more recent work, much of which has favored the sort of topical sociopolitical commentary songs we're hoping to avoid. Like great athletes, we all tend to fade out with time. That said, we were able to keep to our tradition of presenting at least one song per studio release. We would also highlight Snider's 2022 covers record with Band Of Heathens, Remote Transmissions Vol 1, a strong gathering of cover songs. We've also not represented his three worthy albums with his Hard Working Americans assembly, featuring Dave Schools and Duane Trucks of Widespread Panic, Chad Staehly from Great American Taxi, and Derek Trucks (and the late Neal Casal for a time). Todd Snider has not shied away from paying tribute from admired writers, even recording Time As We Know It, a full LP of Jerry Jeff Walker tunes. 

TODD SNiDER: thirty favorites

- "That Was Me" Songs For the Daily Planet  (MCA, 94)

- "Alright Guy" Songs For the Daily Planet

- "I Spoke As a Child" Songs For the Daily Planet

- "I Believe You" Step Right Up  (MCA, Apr 96)

- "Enough" Step Right Up

- "Hey Hey" Step Right Up

- "Can't Complain" Viva Satellite  (MCA, Apr 98)

- "Never Let Me Down" Viva Satellite

- "DB Cooper" Happy To Be Here  (Oh Boy, Apr 00)

- "Rose City" New Connection  (Oh Boy, 02)

- "Waco Moon" New Connection

- "Tillamook County Jail" East Nashville Skyline  (Oh Boy, Jul 04)

- "Play a Train Song" East Nashville Skyline

- "Alcohol and Pills East Nashville Skyline

- "Looking For a Job" Devil You Know  (New Door, Aug 06)

- "Just Like Old Times" Devil You Know

- "Thin Wild Mercury" Devil You Know

- "Devil You Know" Devil You Know

- "Missing You" Peace Love & Anarchy: Rarities, B-sides and Demos Vol 1  (Aimess, Apr 07)

- "East Nashville Skyline" Peace Love & Anarchy

- "Cheatham Street Warehouse" Peace Love & Anarchy

- "Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)" Peace Queer  (Aimless, Oct 08)

- "Greencastle Blues" Excitement Plan  (Yep Roc, Jun 09)

- "America's Favorite Pastime" Excitement Plan

- "Don't Tempt Me (ft Loretta Lynn)" Excitement Plan

- "In Between Jobs" Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables  (Aimless, Mar 12)

- "Ways and Means" Eastside Bulldog  (Aimless, Oct 16)

- "Like a Force Of Nature (ft Jason Isbell)" Cash Cabin Sessions Vol 3  (Aimless, Mar 19)

- "Turn Me Loose (I'll Never Be the Same)" First Agnostic Church Of Hope and Wonder  (Aimless, Apr 21)

- "From a Dying Rose" Crank It We're Doomed  (Aimless, Sep 23)

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To enjoy any Spotify ROUTES-cast, just open Spotify and search for "routesandbranches" to access this most recent playlist, as well as many others from past months.  Or click here for a preview: