One of the best records you’ve never heard is Wellswood, the 2022 LP from New Orleans picker and talker Thomas Dollbaum. I think about that music often, especially a song like “Florida,” and I think about these words always: “I promise you my teeth if you promise me your hand. I’m going to give you the most beautiful funeral that I possibly can. We may never grow old but we sure as hell can’t stay young.” Dollbaum is an archivist and curator I look to for guidance in my own remembering. He’s part Jesus’ Son-age Denis Johnson and part Nebraska-age Bruce Springsteen; his words, fenced by weapons of Americana and swampy, twangy pastorals, will show you life and death through the necessary, oft-harsh artifacts found in-between. But there is beauty in that, just as there is beauty in Dollbaum’s new EP, Drive All Night. Tracked by Clay Jones in Mississippi two years ago, Dollbaum’s longtime co-conspirators Kate Teague and Josh Halper are back again, interpreting the sounds and movements of his folktales and histories.
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