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The Deslondes, 2015
Written by Dan Cutler, Sam Doores, Riley Downing, Cameron Snyder, & John James Tourville
It's Contraction Week!
The band is a roots rock outfit named after a street in the Lower Ninth Ward. This song has a few handfuls of bluegrass and gospel (there's a road, babe, that can take us to glory") tossed in. It could be a love song ("You had me, babe / And I had you"). He could be referring to heaven. Or both. Could easily fit in the services of a revivalist preacher. Or George Jones could croon it. I love a band that can deftly sift and meld genres. This is a head-nodding, toe-tapping example of how folk music can really adapt to all the folk.
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