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Album
Earl, Dylan
Squirrel in the Garden
(Rootsy Music)

Price: 149 SEK

What is country music anyways?

Country-politan? No-Bro-Bullshit Country, as Dylan Earl puts it? Genre boundaries are there to be broken like borders are meant to be crossed, and this record is going to prove that to you good and hard. That pedal steel you hear? It's not a quotation of some record that your dad owned.

No, that's real. That's the USA. It's the earnest emanation of beer-soaked floors from coast-to-coast. It's the sound coming from the antique jukebox in the corner and the playlist in a million vehicles. It's rural, urban, showy, restrained. That gut-busting, honest, almost cheesy voice? It comes from the quiet place between our favorite stoner-metal records and our third beer in places like Charlotte, Raleigh, Birmingham, Seattle, San Antone, Denver, Santa Fe, LA, all over the great state of Arkansas and everywhere in between.

There's a new sheriff in town, and it's Dylan Earl's gorgeous baritone. Should I mention the hard-touring, up for anything road-dogs you are about to hear? Because they've seen ore highway than your average trucker, and make Buzzfeed's list of »100 American Dive Bars You're Afraid To Go To« look like a 4-month tour announcement.

Anyway, Jesus only knows what »Country Music« is --I'll leave it to the critics and the pundits, but I know what a real American sound is. I've seen it thinking and driving, and roasting bones and kicking rocks and on a hundred stages. Lo, and behold, and boy-howdy: it's locked in this record. Enjoy it, friends.

- Will Carlisle, folksinger

1. Lull In The Valley
2. Strange
3. Two Hearts
4. Morning Star
5. House Of Ill Repute
6. Riding Again
7. He's My Brother
8. Just Because
9. I Can't Help It
10. Big Big Day Tomorrow

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