The Handsome Family + Sean Rowe – Doug Fir (Portland, OR; Jan. 21, 2011)

The southern states are ripe with unflattering associations, of stark wilderness, boredom, and lawlessness. But from these miseries and mysteries come potent and evocative music. So there is no question that Sean Rowe, from Albany, New York, is at least aware of the Deep South. And for intentional or accidental reasons, his music resembles the delta blues, down to the sad, downturned notes, deep vocals, proclamations of danger, and eerie storytelling of old women and black Dodges abandoned on th...

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