Few sounds evoke soulful yearning and rural landscapes as the venerable pedal steel guitar. For many listeners its dreamy, tremulous twang is inextricably wound into the roots & branches of country and western music, but over the years some have creatively sought to unshackle it in other genres and contexts. I dare say none of…
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Travelogue 2015-34: Spotlight on Scissor Tail Records
Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma , Scissor Tail Records was founded in 2010 by Dylan Golden Aycock. His album Black Coral Sprig, under the moniker of Talk West, become one of my favorite “missed gems” from last year (thanks to Headphone Commute), so it is fitting that I am also an appreciative late-comer to this beguiling label…
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Stationary Travels 