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Daring Coyotes
Tales From Mount Tom
Tales From Mount Tom is decidedly more traditional and classic than the previous offering from David Clark Carroll (Daring Coyotes).
Where The Aftermath featured something like doom-grass instrumentals with deeply ominous undertones slathered in layer upon layer of sparkling strings, here we get arrangements that should feel more familiar to fans of mountain music.
The album features deft performances from both Carroll and his collaborator Ryan Seiler (Broke String) on bass, and serves as something of a love letter to the roots of this sort of music, with a nod to the wry experimental tendancies of folks like John Hartford.
Taken as a whole, Tales From Mount Tom is a pretty big step forward in the Daring Coyotes catalog, a beautifully performed and produced, entirely cohesive, full-length collection that finds the project expressing confidence on all fronts.