I have really liked Spencer Dobbs ever since I heard his 2016 tape Changed Fool (check here), and I've listened to all his later releases in which he plays bluesy/folksy acoustic depressing music with great lyrics. He was kind enough to send me links to two of his most recent releases and If The Moon Don't Turn Its Back On You is the most extraordinary of his work, as it doesn't follow his usual acoustic pattern, but is more improvised and psych folk centered on electric guitars with slides, glissandos, in-song detunings, quite close to Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack and Karen Dalton freaked folk invocations. It's certainly slightly more ugly and sinister than most of his stuff and it's superb. Get your ass up and download it at the Dust Press bandcamp here.
His most recent 2023 tape is called Lunar Yearling, he says that he recorded it in one take drinking Genesee Cream Ale, and is closer to his more expected beautiful melancholic stuff. I'd dare to say that it's probably my favorite album of his. It's hard to emphasize how heartbreakingly desperate and down to earth it is. Go order it right away at the Dust Press bandcamp here.
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