Doby Watson

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This collaboration between Doby Watson and Austin Swearengin speaks with simple wisdom. And so it should- ideas over beer and acoustic guitar into an eight track. Like two train-hoppers stumbling upon guitars in the right boxcar and creating the sound to some landscape, be it their home in Kansas or some other imagined. But simplicity is not necessarily what holds these quip songs together. They are made by musicians who can craft and craft while playing off each other. It’s impressive the way their melodies can hold one another through various gaits- some, slow and somber, others amble and proper. It’s a mosaic of guitar lines strung together as lavished and pastoral dialogue.