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A rubber band factory used as a studio can also be imbued with a genius loci. As the “Rubberband Man”, the giant from Tennessee has the motto “Catch me if you can”: Lots of style hooks, local sound options don’t go unnoticed. Blues references turn beatlesque (“Buckwheat”), before he becomes Huck Finn’s buddy as a piano balladeer in the childhood memory “Tadpole”.
The imagination of being a butterfly inspires Rayland Baxter
Only Muhammad Ali managed to be a butterfly and still sting like a bee. The imagination of being one inspires Rayland Baxter on a free-spirited, self-contained ten-song ride that is also a requiem for his father, who passed away in 2020. Bucky Baxter (Steve Earle, Dylan) has immortalized himself twice more with his pedal steel.
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