Jesse Tabish - Cowboy Ballads Part I

Jesse Tabish - Cowboy Ballads Part IThe frontman and creative lynchpin of Oklahoma's finest, Other Lives, described by MOJO magazine as "the next must have American pastoral sensation", Jesse and his chief collaborator Kim Tabish (also his wife and fellow band member) used their time during lockdown to fashion a glorious record, as epic as it is intimate, distinguished by the same sweeping, cinematic arrangements and haunting, wistful melodies that typify the band's catalogue, but with

destructive urban party nights

showcasing their timeless appeal and live prowess

DuBoise in his book

of being Latina while being American

cementing its status as an underground classic

challenging music

Washington features Clyde Petersen (Your Heart Breaks)

Eels mastermind E says of the new album

a student at the time but already understood the cultural significance and beauty of both the shop and Jordan Mooney who the compilation is dedicated to

Monk's Straight

"Los Angeles" sounds as if it was lifted from the grooves of Neil Young's on the Beach

Deliverance's Greeting of Death demo (1986) did the same thing for the most heralded Christian thrash act of all-time