Midwest Records

Steve Martin is clearly on to something here. He makes an ostensible vanity banjo album ands wins a Grammy. Luedecke has already polished off a Juno for best roots album. Tim O’Brien is on board throughout and the opening plink plinks will get you if O’Brien doesn’t. Way too sly to be called a back porch album, it’s down home, it’s got banjo but it’s an unexpected motherfucker that will blow you away. Solid stuff that makes you wonder what they’re putting in the water up in Canada-land. – Chris Spector