
New Orthodox / Jed Willis / Mike Johnson
Minimalist, experimental country sounds stretch into repetition, space, and silence—intimate yet grand, charged and claustrophobic. Two Asheville pedal steel sets open the night in a record shop setting tuned for close listening.
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