THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Earlier this year I went home to Mississippi to be with my father for a few months as he passed away from leukemia. These are the songs that carried me through.
“Nothing fancy — me and a Resonator on the land that’s been in my family since the mid-1820s, a few miles south of the edge of the delta between Edwards and Bentonia off of Highway 22.
“I decided against a bunch of mixing and editing. I think there is beauty in the realness of life — its pain and inconsistencies. I hope you enjoy these recordings — more like field recordings I guess…”